Streaken

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To mark or become marked with streaks. ambitransitive

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From streak + -en.

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