cruden

English

Etymology

From crude +‎ -en.

Verb

cruden (third-person singular simple present crudens, present participle crudening, simple past and past participle crudened)

1. (transitive) To make crude
   • 1978, Malcolm Pasley, Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought : a Collection of Essays, page 175:

     We saw how the interconnectedness of primitive impulse and cultural splendour was less forcefully, indeed almost obscurely, expressed through a scholarly excursus which could hardly compete in impact with the 'magnificent blond beast lustfully prowling after booty and victory'; and we saw how the 'blond beast' image was itself crudened, from meaning a psychological factor in man to meaning primitive man in general.

   • 1989, Andrew Rutherford, The Literature of War: Studies in Heroic Virtue:

     In passing from 'A Conference of the Powers' to Stalky, then, we see how genuine experience and observations can be crudened and distorted by their conversion or partial conversion into propagandist fable—a process all too frequent in Kipling's art.

   • 2014, Peter Green, Final Exam, page 3:

     The view with the left should theoretically have been more extensive, that eye having greater altitude at the time, owing to the angle of repose of my head; but although that view gave a middle-ground of pale belly beyond the pubis, the breasts now didn't have the clarity of outline and the subtlety of texture of the previous survey: myopia gave just sufficient blur, after eighteen inches or so, to (ha!) cruden the edge and surface.

Derived terms

• crudening

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *crūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną.

Verb

cruden

1. to push, to press
2. to push forward

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: kruien
  • Afrikaans: kruie, krui

Further reading

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “cruden (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Verb

cruden

1. Alternative form of crouden