sparsen

verb

sparsen

verb

Etymology From sparse + -en.

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Ambitransitive, Rare To make or become sparse.

Again and again, as Beckett's narrative structures tighten and sparsen after the word frenzy of Malone Dies and The Unnamable, we see this effect re-emerging as the underlying condition of narrative voice.2015, Peter Boxall, The Value of the Novel, page 36:

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