Meaning

(transitive) To make good; improve; better; perfect..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make good; improve; better; perfect.
2. (intransitive) To become good.
3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To grow; improve; prosper.
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To perambulate, usually town to town, collecting alms, gifts, or small gratuities before Christmas-time, usually on St. Thomas's Day.

Example Sentences

For many years we have endeavored to comprehend how a/b could transform highly intelligent and in many respects 'model' girls and women (and sometimes boys and men) into unwitting bystanders and accomplices to their own torture and impending death while remaining convinced that they are being perfected and goodened?

The passive voice is all-pervasive. This is a world in which virtue is achieved by not doing things, only thus, like Jesus (Wright tells us) may we “be Goodened with Good.

Phoebe, in support of a good old Sussex custom, regularly, on St. Thomas's Day, December 21st, went out "Goodening," visiting well-to-do parishioners, to gossip upon the past, over hot elderberry wine and plum cake, and to receive doles, either in money or materials, [...]

In 1899 the oldest dame who took part in the ceremony was aged ninety-three, while in 1904 a widow "goodened" for the thirtieth year in succession.

Word Forms

• goodens
• goodening
• goodened

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Use gooden when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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