embrighten

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) em- +‎ bright +‎ -en[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

embrighten (third-person singular simple present embrightens, present participle embrightening, simple past and past participle embrightened)

  1. (rare, chiefly literary) To brighten; to vivify.

References

  1. ^ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) states that embrighten was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- and suffixing of -en.
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