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English
Etymology
From pale + -en.
Verb
palen (third-person singular simple present palens, present participle palening, simple past and past participle palened)
- (transitive, intransitive, rare) To make or become pale.
1932, Transactions, volumes 22-23, page 279:[…] the brown portion gradually palened towards the postero-interior margin, with an inconspicuous paler median streak.
1998, Ann Baer, Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman, page 114:Marion dumped Alice in the wheelbarrow with slices of honeybread between dock leaves on her lap, and wheeled it down the garden, past the beans, darkening as they ripened, past the peas, palening as they ripened, past the neat rows of onions and cabbages.
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch palen. Equivalent to paal + -en.
Verb
palen
- (transitive) to mark or enclose with posts
- (intransitive) to border
- (transitive, vulgar) to bang, to fuck
- (transitive, rare) to execute by piercing on a stake, to impale
1961, Berend Maarsingh, Onderzoek naar de ethiek van de wetten in Deuteronomium, page 36:
Inflection
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
palen
- plural of paal