sooten
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]sooten (third-person singular simple present sootens, present participle sootening, simple past and past participle sootened)
- (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.