lushen

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English

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Etymology

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From lush +‎ -en.

Verb

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lushen (third-person singular simple present lushens, present participle lushening, simple past and past participle lushened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To make or become lush or luscious
    • 2006, Robert Hill, When All Is Said and Done, page 56:
      Give me the alchemy that packaging promises, that brings out my eyes and raises my cheeks and softens my nose and lushens my lips.
    • 2011, Pete Dunne, Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season's Edge, page 189:
      Seeing, beneath age-lushened eyebrows, the look of worry in his eyes.
    • 2012, Leni Zumas, The Listeners, page 72:
      Cam once explained to my brother that Stradivarius had sprinkled volcanic ash between the wood and the varnish on his violins, lushening their sound.
    • 2016, Amy Lane, Rampant:
      And then he slid away. She was going to say something, but she was warm and soft—so soft, I couldn't stop running my hands along her lushening curves.

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