vasten

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verb

To make or become vast

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Meanings

verbvasten (third-person singular simple present vastens, present participle vastening, simple past and past participle vastened)

present singular third person vastens · participle present vastening · participle past vastened · past vastened

  1. ambitransitiverareTo make or become vast
    1 more example

    And while I gazed in wonder and incipient alarm, straightway the throne and the king seemed strangely to blend into one, and then to grow and expand on all sides; and still vastening, and ever more vastening, it presently rose from the earth, self-moved, tremulous in every part with life, huge, dreadful, with deep rifts, and chasms, and gulfs of darkness.

    1871, The Sunday Magazine, page 425

Origin

From vast + -en (verbal suffix).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Stevanvestan
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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