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-en

    1. to become or cause to be: added to adjectives: darken, weaken
    2. to come to have, cause to have: added to nouns: heighten, hearten, strengthen
  1. made of: added to concrete nouns: wooden, waxen
  2. forming the past participle of strong verbs: risen, written
  3. forming the plural of certain nouns: children, oxen
  4. forming the feminine of certain nouns: vixen
  5. forming certain old diminutives: chicken

See -en in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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