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Darkening

Darkening Meaning & Definition
Darkening Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Darkening?

[n] changing to a darker color
[adj] becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over; "the darkening sky"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Darkening: blackening | dark

Related Terms | Find terms related to Darkening: blackening | blocking the light | burial | burying | clouding | concealedness | concealment | covering | covering up | covertness | deception | denigration | dimming | eclipsing | extinguishment | hiddenness | hiding | interment | invisibility | masking | melanization | mystification | nigrification | obfuscation | obnubilation | obscuration | obscurement | obumbration | occultation | occulting | overcast | overclouding | overshading | overshadowing | overshadowment | putting away | screening | secrecy | secretion | shading | shadowing | smirch | smirching | smudge | smudging | smut | smutch | smutching | subterfuge | uncommunicativeness

See Also | change of color | obfuscation

Darkening In Webster's Dictionary

\Dark"en*ing\, n. Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Wright.

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