greyen

English

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Etymology

From grey +‎ -en.

Verb

greyen (third-person singular simple present greyens, present participle greyening, simple past and past participle greyened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become grey
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
      […] he sometimes saw, between him and the ground, lightening the darkness, greyening the leaves and, in wet weather, tinseling the rain, a fascia of white light.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
      So Watt busied himself a little while, covering the lamp, less and less, more and more, with his hat, watching the ashes greyen, redden, greyen, redden, in the grate, of the range.

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