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verb

Darken v. t. (past & past part. darkened; pres. part. darkening)

To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. "They (locusts) covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened." "So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill."

To render dim; to deprive of vision. "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see."

To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. "Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight." "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?"

To cast a gloom upon. "With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth of the feast."

To make foul; to sully; to tarnish. "I must not think there are Evils enough to darken all his goodness."

Darken v. i. To grow or darker.

adjective

darkened adj. Overtaken by night or darkness.

Synonyms: nighted.

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"Darkened" Quotes from Famous Books

... the low, mullion-darkened room he reminded himself that he had come to refuse her request. If, as he suspected, it was the Ballingers' cottage that she wanted. To be sure, the Ballingers had notice to quit in June, but he couldn't very well turn the Ballingers ...

— Mr. Waddington of Wyck • May Sinclair

... shall bless you every hour of my life." Her countenance brightened into rapture at the picture, and Mrs. Woffington's darkened with bitterness as she ...

— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade

... and how Jesus had borne with him and loved him through all, and had drawn him to Himself and received him. So he established by his own experience this great truth, that the love of Jesus Christ is never darkened by one single speck of anger, that He 'suffereth long, and is kind'; that He meets hostility with patient love, hatred with a larger outpouring of His affection, and that His only answer to men's departures ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... Bois-Guilbert, the best lance of the Templars, is proclaimed recreant, amid the hisses of the assembled people? What grief will be at the Court of France! With what joy will the haughty Richard hear the news, that the knight that set him hard in Palestine, and well-nigh darkened his renown, has lost fame and honour for a Jewish girl, whom he could not even save by so costly ...

— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott

... displeasure, which had begun to come over Arthur's face when the young Captain spoke of Love so lightly, faded away as the song proceeded, and he listened with evident delight. But his face darkened again when Eric demurely remarked "Don't you think 'my soldier-lad' would have fitted the tune ...

— Sylvie and Bruno • Lewis Carroll

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