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verb

Blacken v. t. (past & past part. blackened; pres. part. blackening)

To make or render black. "While the long funerals blacken all the way."

To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens."

To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

Synonyms: To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse.

Blacken v. i. To grow black or dark.

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Etymology of 'Blackened'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blackened" Quotes from Famous Books

... the tumult he defied, Darker the leaden storm he braved, Where swept the battle's smoking tide, And banners, torn and blackened, waved. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various

... opening of the hut was blackened by the exit of the Dog-man. Then I followed and stood up, almost in the exact spot where I had been when I had heard Moreau and his staghound pursuing me. But now it was night, and all the miasmatic ...

— The Island of Doctor Moreau • H. G. Wells

... garrisoned by the Royalists—Alais, Anduze, Florac, St. Hypolite, and Nismes—so that nothing should be left calculated to give sustenance to the rebels. Four hundred and sixty-six villages and hamlets were reduced to mere heaps of ashes and blackened ruins, and such of their inhabitants as were not slain by the soldiery fled with ...

— The Huguenots in France • Samuel Smiles

... afraid that he should find nothing but an empty space in the place of the house, and had so strongly suspected that he should see the street blackened by the smoke of a conflagration, that the street and the house appeared to him miracles of neatness, ...

— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas

... Only two lots of men were seen in Peterborough this year, the Stores no doubt not encouraging them as the tradesmen did in the old times. In Northampton, in 1910, I saw numerous groups of children with blackened faces and grotesque dresses going about the streets on ...

— Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District • Charles Dack

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