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sooten en · VERB

Etymology

From soot + -en.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cover with soot; make sooty
   • Yesterday's snow collected in black sootening clumps, some streaked yellow by wanton dogs. 2016, Paul Quintanilla, Jamie Budlow:
   • The cumulative effect of the sootened city, the dark arrogant people, the immense extent of the squalor that lay on the engrimed land - I found myself longing to wrap up the experiment and head home. The weather was very cold and wet. 2005, Peter Edwards, The Front of Beyond and Other Curious Tales, page 151:

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