louden

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English

Etymology

From loud +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aʊdən

Verb

louden (third-person singular simple present loudens, present participle loudening, simple past and past participle loudened)

  1. To become louder.
    • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 167:
      The shouts of the bookies were now loudening outside in the sunlight, and when I'd slipped on my raincoat we went out to see what we could of the Light Weight Race.

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