English

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Etymology

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From cold +‎ en- -en.[1]

Pronunciation

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Hyphenation
en·col·den

Verb

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encolden (third-person singular simple present encoldens, present participle encoldening, simple past and past participle encoldened)

  1. (transitive, rare, chiefly literary) Render cold; chill.

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  1. ^ The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language by John Ogilvie (1883) states that encolden was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- and suffixing of -en.