streaken

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English

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Etymology

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From streak +‎ -en.

Verb

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streaken (third-person singular simple present streakens, present participle streakening, simple past and past participle streakened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To mark or become marked with streaks.
    • 2013, Anthony Ryan, Candle and Sun, page 123:
      Cullan stopped in his tracks...a double-decker bus made a large angular shadow against the now silver streakening cloudscape, incongruous in this reeded sandscape, like a boat in a desert.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English streak.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈstriː.kə(n)/, [ˈstɹiː.kə(n)]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: strea‧ken

Verb

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streaken

  1. (intransitive) to streak (to run naked in public, especially at sports games)

Conjugation

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Conjugation of streaken (weak)
infinitive streaken
past singular streakte
past participle gestreakt
infinitive streaken
gerund streaken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular streak streakte
2nd person sing. (jij) streakt, streak2 streakte
2nd person sing. (u) streakt streakte
2nd person sing. (gij) streakt streakte
3rd person singular streakt streakte
plural streaken streakten
subjunctive sing.1 streake streakte
subjunctive plur.1 streaken streakten
imperative sing. streak
imperative plur.1 streakt
participles streakend gestreakt
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.
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