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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

fainten en · VERB

Etymology

From faint + -en (verbal suffix).

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become faint.
    • Thou wilt not be, either so little absent as not to whet our appetites, nor so long as to fainten the heart. 1808, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, The Works of Joseph Hall:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
faintened Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
faintened Tense=Past lexicographic
faintens Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
faintening Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic