Bleaken

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To become bleak intransitive

    "The imagination tends to bleaken in adult life, and rigid categories may reduce perceptual sensitivity. The sense of wonder is diminished and gratitude for experience itself may fail."

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"The imagination tends to bleaken in adult life, and rigid categories may reduce perceptual sensitivity. The sense of wonder is diminished and gratitude for experience itself may fail."

Etymology

From bleak + -en.

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