Meanings
present singular third person sleekens · participle present sleekening · participle past sleekened · past sleekened
- ambitransitiveTo make or become sleek.
He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.
2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 111 more example
Now I have had my gird at thee, my servant, I must tell thee that in sooth it is not all for nothing that thou hast had these months of rest; for verily thou hast grown more of a woman thereby, and hast sleekened and rounded much.
1897, William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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