-en
- to become or cause to be: added to adjectives: darken, weaken
- to come to have, cause to have: added to nouns: heighten, hearten, strengthen
- made of: added to concrete nouns: wooden, waxen
- forming the past participle of strong verbs: risen, written
- forming the plural of certain nouns: children, oxen
- forming the feminine of certain nouns: vixen
- forming certain old diminutives: chicken
See -en in American Heritage Dictionary 4
suffixa. To cause to be: cheapen.
b. To become: redden.
a. To cause to have: hearten.
b. To come to have: lengthen.
suffix Made of; resembling: earthen.
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