greyen

English

Alternative forms

• grayen

Etymology

From grey +‎ -en.

Verb

greyen (third-person singular simple present greyens, present participle greyening, simple past and past participle greyened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become grey
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     […] he sometimes saw, between him and the ground, lightening the darkness, greyening the leaves and, in wet weather, tinseling the rain, a fascia of white light.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     So Watt busied himself a little while, covering the lamp, less and less, more and more, with his hat, watching the ashes greyen, redden, greyen, redden, in the grate, of the range.

Anagrams

• Greeny, energy, greeny, gyrene