streaken

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verb

To mark or become marked with streaks.

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Meanings

verbstreaken (third-person singular simple present streakens, present participle streakening, simple past and past participle streakened)

present singular third person streakens · participle present streakening · participle past streakened · past streakened

  1. ambitransitiveTo mark or become marked with streaks.

    Cullan stopped in his tracks...a double-decker bus made a large angular shadow against the now silver streakening cloudscape, incongruous in this reeded sandscape, like a boat in a desert.

    2013, Anthony Ryan, Candle and Sun, page 123

Origin

From streak + -en.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

streaken. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/streaken

MLA

“streaken.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/streaken. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “streaken,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/streaken.

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