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/dˈɑrkənɪŋ/ /dˈɑrknɪŋ/ Listen

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.

noun

Darkening n. Twilight; gloaming. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

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Etymology of 'Darkening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Darkening" Quotes from Famous Books

... gravel-pits, leaving mounds and hollows studded with brushwood and small trees. She roamed up and down, thinking there was perhaps a pool in every hollow before she came to it, till her limbs were weary, and she sat down to rest. The afternoon was far advanced, and the leaden sky was darkening, as if the sun were setting behind it. After a little while Hetty started up again, feeling that darkness would soon come on; and she must put off finding the pool till to-morrow, and make her way to some shelter for the night. She had quite lost her way in the fields, and might ...

— Adam Bede • George Eliot

... priest, and creed; When all the faiths have passed; Perhaps, from darkening incense freed, God may ...

— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall

... danger; and afterwards carrying him in a litter all the way to his own chastel in Picardy. His ransom however is 6000 nobles—I suppose about 25,000 pounds, of our present estimate; and you may set down for one of the fatallest signs that the days of chivalry are near their darkening, how "devint celuy Escuyer, Chevalier, pour le grand profit qu'il eut du Seigneur ...

— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

... tear herself from the breeze and the sun. She sat among the daffodils, in a sort of sad delight, wondering sometimes at the veil that had dropped between her and beauty—dulling and darkening all things. ...

— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... the people of all nations on equal terms to its bosom, and Commerce is the swift-winged messenger ever travelling from shore to shore. Look at it, and if our eyes could scan it all at once, we should see the smoke darkening the air as it rises from hundreds of chimneys, telling of fires that make the steam for propelling the mighty engines that bring the great leviathans of commerce almost daily into our ports and into those ...

— Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade • John Codman

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