deathen

present singular third person deathens · participle present deathening · participle past deathened · past deathened

1. raretransitiveTo cause, bring about, or affect with deadness or death.

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

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

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   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.

   1882, George Mac Donald, Castle Warlock a homely Romance, page 16

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

   1911, Thornwell Jacobs, The Midnight Mummer, page 14

   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.

   2010, Chogyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom

1. misspellingMisspelling of deafen.