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wacken

wacken adjective: watchful.

Adjective

wacken (comparative more wacken, superlative most wacken)

  1. (obsolete) Watchful.
  2. (UK, dialectal) Lively; sharp; wanton.

Forms of wacken

comparativemore wacken
superlativemost wacken

Origin of wacken

From Middle English waken, from Old English wacen, ġewacen, from Proto-Germanic *wakanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wakaną (“to wake, be awake, arise”), equivalent to wake + -en (past participle ending).

Words that rhyme with wacken

Questions about wacken

What does wacken mean?
Wacken means watchful.
What part of speech is wacken?
Wacken is an adjective.

Words near wacken in the dictionary

  1. wackaging
  2. wackaloon
  3. wackaloons
  4. wacke
  5. wacked out
  6. wacken
  7. Wackenroder solution
  8. wacker
  9. Wacker process
  10. wackers
  11. wackes

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