embrighten

English

Etymology

bright +‎ em- -en[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

embrighten (third-person singular simple present embrightens, present participle embrightening, simple past and past participle embrightened)

  1. (rare, chiefly literary) To brighten; to vivify.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:embrighten.

References
  1. The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) states that embrighten was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- and suffixing of -en.
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