Streaken
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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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