youngen
verbEtymology From young + -en.
1
Ambitransitive, Nonstandard To make or become young.
- He was firm in his conviction that shrubs had to be "youngened" at least once a year.1949, Mary Deputy Lamson, Landscape with Shrubs and Flowering Trees, page 273:
- Reba's smoothened youngened voice now offered sufficient room so it'd hammock all desire.2010, Allan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, page 579:
- Synonyms
- youthen
- Antonyms
- olden
- Derived terms
- youngening