streaken

English

Etymology

From streak + -en.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To mark or become marked with streaks.
    • 2013, Anthony Ryan, Candle and Sun, page 123:
      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.

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English streak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstriː.kə(n)/, [ˈstɹiː.kə(n)]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: strea‧ken

Verb

streaken

  1. (intransitive) to streak (to run naked in public, especially at sports games)

Inflection

Inflection of streaken (weak)
infinitive streaken
past singular streakte
past participle gestreakt
infinitive streaken
gerund streaken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular streakstreakte
2nd person sing. (jij) streaktstreakte
2nd person sing. (u) streaktstreakte
2nd person sing. (gij) streaktstreakte
3rd person singular streaktstreakte
plural streakenstreakten
subjunctive sing.1 streakestreakte
subjunctive plur.1 streakenstreakten
imperative sing. streak
imperative plur.1 streakt
participles streakendgestreakt
1) Archaic.
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