ruden

See also: Ruden, rüden, and Rüden

English

Etymology

From rude +‎ -en.

Verb

ruden (third-person singular simple present rudens, present participle rudening, simple past and past participle rudened)

1. (transitive) To make rude; make raw, simplified, or more robust; toughen.
   • 1984, The Poetic Works of Charles Harpur:

     None ever voyaged the wild sea of Life / Less warped and rudened by its stormy strife, […]

Anagrams

• Duren, nuder, runed, under, under-, unred, urned

Danish

Noun

ruden c

1. definite singular of rude

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rodye

Etymology

Inherited from Old English rudian, from Proto-West Germanic *rodēn, *rudēn, from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti; equivalent to rode (“ruddiness”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). Compare rudnen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrudən/

Verb

ruden (third-person singular simple present rudeth, present participle rudende, rudynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle ruded)

1. (rare) To redden; to become or make red.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ruden (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) ruden
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	rude	ruded
2nd-person singular	rudest	rudedest
3rd-person singular	rudeth	ruded
subjunctive singular	rude
imperative singular		—
plural1	ruden, rude	rudeden, rudede
imperative plural	rudeth, rude	—
participles	rudynge, rudende	ruded, yruded

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: rud

References

• “ruden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.