lushen
verbEtymology From lush + -en.
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Ambitransitive, Rare To make or become lush or luscious
- Give me the alchemy that packaging promises, that brings out my eyes and raises my cheeks and softens my nose and lushens my lips.2006, Robert Hill, When All Is Said and Done, page 56:
- Seeing, beneath age-lushened eyebrows, the look of worry in his eyes.2011, Pete Dunne, Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season's Edge, page 189:
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- Cam once explained to my brother that Stradivarius had sprinkled volcanic ash between the wood and the varnish on his violins, lushening their sound.2012, Leni Zumas, The Listeners, page 72:
- And then he slid away. She was going to say something, but she was warm and soft—so soft, I couldn't stop running my hands along her lushening curves.2016, Amy Lane, Rampant: