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sparsen en · VERB

Etymology

From sparse + -en.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become sparse.
   • 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. 2015, Peter Boxall, The Value of the Novel, page 36:

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