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vasten

vasten verb: to make or become vast.

Verb

vasten (third-person singular simple present vastens, present participle vastening, simple past and past participle vastened)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become vast
    • And while I gazed in wonder and incipient alarm, straightway the throne and the king seemed strangely to blend into one, and then to grow and expand on all sides; and still vastening, and ever more vastening, it presently rose from the earth, self-moved, tremulous in every part with life, huge...1871, The Sunday Magazine, page 425

Forms of vasten

third-person singular presentvastens
present participlevastening
past participlevastened
pastvastened

Origin of vasten

From vast + -en (verbal suffix).

Questions about vasten

What does vasten mean?
Vasten means to make or become vast.
What part of speech is vasten?
Vasten is a verb.
What is the past tense of vasten?
The past tense of vasten is vastened.

Words near vasten in the dictionary

  1. Vasta
  2. Vastas
  3. vastatin
  4. vastatins
  5. vastation
  6. vasten
  7. vaster
  8. vastest
  9. Vasthy
  10. vasti externi
  11. vastidity

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