Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To make crisp.

    make brown and crisp by heating

  2. (intransitive)To become crisp.

Origin

From crisp + -en.

From crisp + -en.

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Forms

crispens, crispening, crispened, crispened
Base formcrispen · to crispen
3rd person singularcrispens
Present participlecrispening
Past simplecrispened
Past participlecrispened

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycrispen
he, she, itcrispens

Past simpleLesson

all personscrispened

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave crispened
he, she, ithas crispened

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill crispen

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcrispy
Derivedcrispener

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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