odden

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verb

To make or become odd (all senses)

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

verbodden (third-person singular simple present oddens, present participle oddening, simple past and past participle oddened)

present singular third person oddens · participle present oddening · participle past oddened · past oddened

  1. 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 145
    3 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 Affair

    I 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 Stage

    I 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

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APA

odden. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odden

MLA

“odden.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odden. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “odden,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/odden.

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