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English
Etymology
From dense + -en.
Verb
densen (third-person singular simple present densens, present participle densening, simple past and past participle densened)
- (intransitive) To become dense or more dense.
1992, Wiesław Myśliwski, The palace, page 109:I see a singing darkness in my unseeing eyes. Of neither water, nor earth, nor night. It quivers, densens, then explodes in black. Then it falls away in strings of rippling beads. And again it quivers, densens. Can you hear it?
2004, Quentin van Marle, Boomerang Road: A Pedalling Pom's Australian Odyssey, page 45:Traffic densens as the morning ticks on. Trucks roar past on the nearside lane, but I'm well protected by a decent width of shoulder.
2007, Donald Hall, Eagle Pond, page 5:Sit in a chair looking south into blue twilight that arrives earlier every day— as the sky flakes and densens, as the first clear flakes float past the porch's wood to light on dirt of the driveway and on brown frozen grass or dry stalks of the flower border.
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Japanese
Romanization
densen
- Rōmaji transcription of でんせん