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. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become grey
    • 1977, Journal of Beckett Studies, volume 7, page 206:
      The more one ratio incinerates the matter, the more it greyens; there is thus immense authorial irony in the earlier statement [p. 85], that Ticklepenny is "the merest pawn in the game."

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