vasten

From vast +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

vasten (third-person singular simple present vastens, present participle vastening, simple past and past participle vastened)

1. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become vast
   • 1871, The Sunday Magazine, page 425:

     And while I gazed in wonder and incipient alarm, straightway the throne and the king seemed strangely to blend into one, and then to grow and expand on all sides; and still vastening, and ever more vastening, it presently rose from the earth, self-moved, tremulous in every part with life, huge, dreadful, with deep rifts, and chasms, and gulfs of darkness.

• Vestan, ventas, vestan

• vasten

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From Middle Dutch vasten, from Old Dutch *faston, from Proto-Germanic *fastijaną.

vasten

1. to fast

From Middle Dutch vastene f, from Old Dutch *fastunna, from Proto-Germanic *fastubniją, *fastubnijō. Cognate with Old Saxon fastunnia, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌿𐌱𐌽𐌹 (fastubni).

vasten m or n (uncountable)

1. fast (period of time when one abstains from or eats very little food)

• staven

vasten

1. (colloquial, dialectal) against

   En ole vasten.

   I'm not against.

• vastaan

• puolesta

vasten

1. against (of a position, touching)

   Lapio nojasi seinää vasten.

   The shovel was leaning against the wall.

2. against (of a position, against a background)

   Katso sitä valoa vasten, niin näet, mitä tarkoitan.

   Look at it against the light, and you will see what I mean.

3. preceding, before (immediately before)

   Se tapahtui torstaita vasten yöllä.

   It happened in the night preceding Thursday.

4. towards, against (to a direction)

   Kapteeni ohjasi keulan tuulta vasten.

   The captain steered the bow towards the wind.

5. against (in opposition to, opposing)

   Taistelimme intiaaneja vasten kolme päivää ja yötä.

   We fought against the Indians for three days and nights.

6. against (contrary to)

   Hän toimi selkeää kieltoa vasten.

   He acted against a clear prohibition.

7. (colloquial) for (a purpose)

   Mitä vasten?

   What for?

Used also as preposition, without change in meaning.

• (preceding): ennen
• (to a direction): vastaan, kohti
• (in opposition to): vastaan
• (contrary to): vastoin
• (for a purpose): varten, takia

• varta vasten

• vastenmielinen
• vastentahtoinen

vasten

1. opposed to

From Old Dutch *faston, from Proto-Germanic *fastijaną.

vasten

1. to fast

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: vasten
• Limburgish: vaste

• “vasten (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “vasten (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929