"sparsen" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From sparse + -en.",
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      "form": "sparsens",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "sparsening",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "sparsened",
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        "participle",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Peter Boxall, The Value of the Novel, page 36:",
          "text": "Again and again, as Beckett's narrative structures tighten and sparsen after the word frenzy of Malone Dies and The Unnamable, we see this effect re-emerging as the underlying condition of narrative voice.",
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        "To make or become sparse."
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          "sparse",
          "sparse"
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        "(rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become sparse."
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        "transitive"
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  "word": "sparsen"
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sparse + -en.",
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    {
      "form": "sparsens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sparsening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sparsened",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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