colden
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From cold + -en. Compare Middle English colden (“to colden”), from Old English cealdian (“to colden”). More at cold.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊld(ə)n/
- Rhymes: -əʊldən
Verb
colden (third-person singular simple present coldens, present participle coldening, simple past and past participle coldened)
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive, sometimes figuratively) To grow or make cold.
- Even the snowboarding accident that he had last year that left him bedbound for 2 weeks did not seem to colden his passion for this sport.
Middle English
References
- “gōlden (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.
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