sleeken

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verb

To make or become sleek.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbsleeken (third-person singular simple present sleekens, present participle sleekening, simple past and past participle sleekened)

present singular third person sleekens · participle present sleekening · participle past sleekened · past sleekened

  1. 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 11
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    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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APA

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

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

Chicago

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

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