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Blackening   /blˈækənɪŋ/  /blˈæknɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Blacken  v. t.  (past & past part. blackened; pres. part. blackening)  
1.
To make or render black. "While the long funerals blacken all the way."
2.
To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens."
3.
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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Blackening" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The blackening wave is edged with white; To inch and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck ...
— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty
... darker tinge than with Europeans—almost a light bluish grey. The women seem to have wonderful control over the muscles of the eyelids and brows, which render the eyes dangerously expressive. The habit of artificially blackening the under lid with Surmah, too, adds, to no mean extent, to the luminosity and vivid power of the eyes in contrast to the alabaster-like, really beautiful skin of the younger ...
— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... relations to each other should be determined, and such deviations made from the smaller sketch as seem to benefit the effect. [202] Some draughtsmen sketch out each line of lettering separately on thin paper, and then, after blackening the back of this sheet, lay each line over the place where it is needed in the design, tracing the outlines of the letters with a hard point, and thus transferring them to the design beneath. In this way ...
— Letters and Lettering - A Treatise With 200 Examples • Frank Chouteau Brown
... time of the greater conflagration referred to by M'Leod, were all lying ill of fever, who had to carry two of his sick children on his back a distance of twenty-five miles. We have heard of the famished people blackening the shores, like the crew of some vessel wrecked on an inhospitable coast, that they might sustain life by the shell-fish and sea-weed laid bare by the ebb. Many of their allotments, especially on the western coast, ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller
... as possible in the attitude of a player about to catch a bounced ball. But immediately the pain of that grew unendurable too, and he leaped back, jerking his hands away. He had succeeded only in blackening the steel and putting a big water blister on one of his wrists right where the shackle bolt would ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb


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