tarten
English
Verb
tarten (third-person singular simple present tartens, present participle tartening, simple past and past participle tartened)
- (transitive) To make tart or bitter
- 1956, Library Journal, volume 81, page 2257:
- These faults in a scholar tend to tarten the writing, to enliven the reader.
- 1964, Long Island Forum, volume 27-29, page 169:
- I loved their shouts of welcome as I trudged across the fields carrying the heavy jug. Mama mixed the old time drink from cold well water, a pinch of ginger, molasses and some vinegar to tarten it.
- 1991, The Lyric Opera companion, The History, Lore, and Stories of the World's Greatest Operas:
- He knew precisely when to spice the orchestration with percussive pepper, when to add a pinch more of sugar, when to tarten the mixture with a squeeze or two of lime.
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- (intransitive) To become tart or bitter
- 1928, The Second American Caravan: A Yearbook of American Literature:
- […] her sweetness tartened as one side of her clutched loyalty, the other love.
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Inflection
Inflection of tarten (weak) | ||||
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infinitive | tarten | |||
past singular | tartte | |||
past participle | getart | |||
infinitive | tarten | |||
gerund | tarten n | |||
verbal noun | — | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | tart | tartte | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | tart | tartte | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | tart | tartte | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | tart | tartte | ||
3rd person singular | tart | tartte | ||
plural | tarten | tartten | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | tarte | tartte | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | tarten | tartten | ||
imperative sing. | tart | |||
imperative plur.1 | tart | |||
participles | tartend | getart | ||
1) Archaic. |
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