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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
den .
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Examples
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Putnam's job was to make sure that the manmade island and all manmade products -- foods, waste, fuels, trash -- were secured from the federally-protected animal, which had denned there sometime in late October to give birth, unbeknown to wildlife officials or work crews.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Spy Island Polar Bears, Meet the World AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Likewise Michael came to know what Harley Kennan never did know and always denied as existing on his ranch -- the one rocky outcrop, in the dense heart of the mountain forest, where a score of rattlesnakes denned through the winters and warmed themselves in the sun.
CHAPTER XXXV 2010
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The owner finally retrieved his dog unharmed, but only after the bear was tranquilized with a dart gun and the dog had then been denned for two days longer than it intended …
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Putnam's job was to make sure that the manmade island and all manmade products -- foods, waste, fuels, trash -- were secured from the federally-protected animal, which had denned there sometime in late October to give birth, unbeknown to wildlife officials or work crews.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Spy Island Polar Bears, Meet the World AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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Nob Hill arose, like any medieval castle, from the mess and ruck of common life that denned and laired at its base.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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The music summoned his magic; the intent interpreted it; the words denned it, approximately.
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Even so, in all the life that grew and flew and fought and died on the most fertile globe in the heavens, there was not a single creature that thought-not in the manner in which thought is usually and comfortably denned.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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I go to the Rockies most years, and yes, there are bears out unless weather has been terrible and they denned up.
... 2008
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Right now they're denned up, and as long as you're not stupid enough to put your hand into a hole in the ground, no worries.
From Twitter 01-03-2010 e_moon60 2010
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As part of a study Tabor was involved with in 2004, he and his coworkers tagged seven bears to find out where they denned, how healthy they were, and how many cubs they had.
Susan Cosier: Crafty Bears Foil Campers in the Adirondacks 2009
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