Greyen

Quick meaning: Greyen is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To make or become grey.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To make or become grey.

Example Sentences

[…] he sometimes saw, between him and the ground, lightening the darkness, greyening the leaves and, in wet weather, tinseling the rain, a fascia of white light.

So Watt busied himself a little while, covering the lamp, less and less, more and more, with his hat, watching the ashes greyen, redden, greyen, redden, in the grate, of the range.

Word Forms

• greyens
• greyening
• greyened

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gray, darken, benegro, bleaken, blacken, nigrify.

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