Meanings
verbsparsen (third-person singular simple present sparsens, present participle sparsening, simple past and past participle sparsened)
present singular third person sparsens · participle present sparsening · participle past sparsened · past sparsened
- ambitransitiverareTo make or become sparse.
Again and again, as Beckett's narrative structures tighten and sparsen after the word frenzy of Malone Dies and The Unnamable, we see this effect re-emerging as the underlying condition of narrative voice.
2015, Peter Boxall, The Value of the Novel, page 36
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sparsen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sparsen
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“sparsen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sparsen. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sparsen,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sparsen.
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