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youngening

youngening is the present participle and gerund of youngen.

Meaning of youngen

Verb

youngen (third-person singular simple present youngens, present participle youngening, simple past and past participle youngened)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard) To make or become young.
    • He was firm in his conviction that shrubs had to be "youngened" at least once a year.1949, Mary Deputy Lamson, Landscape with Shrubs and Flowering Trees, page 273
    Synonyms:
    youthen

Noun

youngening (uncountable)

  1. The act or process of making or becoming young.

Origin of youngening

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From youngen + -ing.

Questions about youngening

What does youngening mean?
Youngening means the act or process of making or becoming young.
What is youngening the present participle and gerund of?
Youngening is the present participle and gerund of youngen.
What part of speech is youngening?
Youngening is a noun.

Words near youngening in the dictionary

  1. Youngdahls
  2. younge
  3. younged
  4. youngen
  5. youngened
  6. youngening
  7. youngens
  8. younger
  9. younger brother
  10. younger brothers
  11. Younger Dryas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: youngening (page history and authors); youngen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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