sooten
verbEtymology From soot + -en.
1
To cover with soot; make sooty
- The cumulative effect of the sootened city, the dark arrogant people, the immense extent of the squalor that lay on the engrimed land - I found myself longing to wrap up the experiment and head home. The weather was very cold and wet.2005, Peter Edwards, The Front of Beyond and Other Curious Tales, page 151:
- Yesterday's snow collected in black sootening clumps, some streaked yellow by wanton dogs.2016, Paul Quintanilla, Jamie Budlow: