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English
Etymology
From Middle English mirkenen, merknen, from Old Norse myrkna (“to darken”). Cognate with Icelandic myrkna (“to darken”), Swedish mörkna (“to get dark, darken”), Danish mørkne (“to darken”), equivalent to mirk + -en. More at murk.
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Verb
mirken (third-person singular simple present mirkens, present participle mirkening, simple past and past participle mirkened)
- (intransitive, Scotland, rare) To grow dark.
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