"bleaken" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: bleakens [present, singular, third-person], bleakening [participle, present], bleakened [participle, past], bleakened [past]
Etymology: From bleak + -en. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|bleak|en|id2=inchoative}} bleak + -en Head templates: {{en-verb}} bleaken (third-person singular simple present bleakens, present participle bleakening, simple past and past participle bleakened)
  1. (intransitive) To become bleak Tags: intransitive

Inflected forms

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