deathen

English

Etymology 1

From death +‎ -en.

Verb

deathen (third-person singular simple present deathens, present participle deathening, simple past and past participle deathened)

1. (transitive, rare) To cause, bring about, or affect with deadness or death
   • 1882, George Mac Donald, Castle Warlock a homely Romance, page 16:

     Moved by the spring eternal in himself, whereof the love in his heart was a river-shape, he turned away from the deathened stream, and without knowing why, sought the humanity in the castle.

   • 1911, Thornwell Jacobs, The Midnight Mummer, page 14:

     So fevered — oh, so fevered, he,
     So low his little moan,
     O baby's tiny, burning brow,
     O mother's deathened groan, […]

   • 1916, Craven Langstroth Betts, Selected Poems of Craven Langstroth Betts, page 20:

     His head fell forward, for some breathless space
     The blow was deathening; ghastly white in face […]

   • 2010, Chogyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom:

     You go through some tunnel and you come out; you're delivered to somewhere else. You see exciting things and you come out on the other end. But in this case, it is related with psychological problems. It is going to be more deathening, more hellish or heavenish.

Etymology 2

Verb

deathen

1. Misspelling of deafen.

Anagrams

• nethead