sooten

English

Etymology

From soot +‎ -en.

Verb

sooten (third-person singular simple present sootens, present participle sootening, simple past and past participle sootened)

1. (transitive) To cover with soot; make sooty
   • 2005, Peter Edwards, The Front of Beyond and Other Curious Tales, page 151:

     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.

   • 2016, Paul Quintanilla, Jamie Budlow:

     Yesterday's snow collected in black sootening clumps, some streaked yellow by wanton dogs.

Anagrams

• Toones, Ootens, osteon