About The Word Darken
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What's The Definition Of Darken?
[v] make dark or darker; "darken a room"
[v] become dark or darker; "The sky darkened" [v] tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name" [v] become or make darker; "The screen darkend"; "He darkened the colors by adding brown" Synonyms | Synonyms for Darken: dim Related Terms | Find terms related to Darken: attaint | bandage | beat down | becloud | bedarken | bedaub | bedazzle | bedim | befog | begloom | bemist | benight | besmear | besmirch | besmoke | bestain | black | black out | blacken | blackwash | blanch | blind | blind the eyes | blindfold | block the light | blot | blot out | blotch | blur | blush | brand | brown | cast a shadow | cast down | change color | charcoal | clabber up | cloud | cloud over | cloud up | color | cork | crimson | damp | dampen | dampen the spirits | darken over | darkle | dash | daub | daze | dazzle | deject | denigrate | depress | deprive of sight | dim | dim out | dinge | dirty | discolor | discourage | dishearten | dispirit | dusk | ebonize | eclipse | encloud | encompass with shadow | enmist | excecate | flush | fog | glare | gloam | gloom | glow | gouge | grow dark | grow dim | haze | hoodwink | ink | knock down | look black | lower | lower the spirits | make blind | mantle | mark | melanize | mist | murk | nigrify | nubilate | obfuscate | obnubilate | obscure | obumbrate | occult | occultate | opaque | oppress | overcast | overcloud | overshadow | oversmoke | pale | press down | redden | sadden | scorch | sear | shade | shadow | singe | sink | slubber | slur | smear | smirch | smog | smoke | smudge | smut | smutch | snow-blind | soil | somber | soot | strike blind | taint | tarnish | turn color | turn pale | turn red | weigh heavy upon | weigh upon | whiten See Also | alter | bedim | benight | black out | blacken out | blind | change | change intensity | cloud | cloud over | cloud up | darken | defile | dim | dun | embrown | maculate | murk | obscure | overcast | overcloud | sully | tarnish Darken In Webster's Dictionary \Dark"en\ (d[aum]rk"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Darkened}
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Darkening} (-n*[i^]ng).] [AS.
deorcian. See {Dark}, a.]
1. 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. --Ex. x. 15.
So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To
darken all the hill. --Milton.
2. To render dim; to deprive of vision.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
--Rom. xi. 10.
3. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or
intelligible.
Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom
darkenhis foresight. --Bacon.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without
knowledge? --Job.
xxxviii. 2.
4. To cast a gloom upon.
With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
The mirth of the feast. --Shak.
5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
I must not think there are Evils enough to darken
all his goodness. --Shak.
\Dark"en\, v. i. To grow or darker. |
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