Meanings
present singular third person oddens · participle present oddening · participle past oddened · past oddened
- ambitransitiverareTo make or become odd (all senses)
It was that he had to talk my mind without me there to odden up his thoughts.
1974, Berry Morgan, The Mystic Adventures of Roxie Stoner, page 1453 more examples
The light still shines, even though the vessel be oddened, he had remarked once, and Emma, laughing, had kissed his bone-thick, fever-warm brow.
2013, Lilith Saintcrow, The Red Plague AffairI cried to be fallen in the love, but in the autumn year of my young age, the villagers and Mama filtered me from the home and the village, for oddening the love.
2016, The Joyous StageI admit to feeling odd not by my self-infliction; rather, I feel “oddened” by White teacher candidates like this who unintentionally (or intentionally) misplace a racialized label on me as if I am “a commodity as spectacle,” […]
2016, Cheryl E. Matias, Feeling White, page 19
Origin
From odd + -en (verbal ending).
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odden. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odden
“odden.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odden. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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