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blaken.

to burn turbulently or with a lot of smoke and smut (like a dying candle)

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Meaning & usage

verb/ˈblaːkən/[ˈblaːkən][ˈblaːkŋ̩]
  1. to burn turbulently or with a lot of smoke and smut (like a dying candle)

    weak
    eine blakende Kerze
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from German Low German blaken, from Middle Low German blāken, blaken (“to burn, smoke, glow”), from Proto-West Germanic *blakōn, from Proto-Germanic *blakōną, related to *blaikaz (“white, pale”). Cognate with Dutch blaken.

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