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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

streaken en · VERB

Etymology

From streak + -en.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To mark or become marked with streaks.
    • Cullan stopped in his tracks...a double-decker bus made a large angular shadow against the now silver streakening cloudscape, incongruous in this reeded sandscape, like a boat in a desert. 2013, Anthony Ryan, Candle and Sun, page 123:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
streakening Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
streakens Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
streakened Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
streakened Tense=Past lexicographic