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Etymology

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From weird +‎ -en.

Verb

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weirden (third-person singular simple present weirdens, present participle weirdening, simple past and past participle weirdened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become weird
    • 2018, Poul Anderson, Three Tales of Time and Space:
      Red and white light together cast double shadows of different lengths and colors, weirdened the whole landscape, sparse yellow shrubs, cracked gray soil above and raw-shaped ocherous crags and bluffs tumbling into the cleft beneath.
    • 2018, Clinton Crockett Peters, Pandora's Garden:
      And as the weather responds and weirdens to climate change, the forest fires blazing, the eyes of hurricanes dotting the Atlantic, I wonder: what does it mean to be conductors of evolution?

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