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Darkening   /dˈɑrkənɪŋ/  /dˈɑrknɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Darken  v. t.  (past & past part. darkened; pres. part. darkening)  
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." "So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill."
2.
To render dim; to deprive of vision. "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see."
3.
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?"
4.
To cast a gloom upon. "With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth of the feast."
5.
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.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Darkening" Quotes from Famous Books



... Into this darkening storm Nella-Rose fled unheedingly. She was not herself—not the girl of the woods, wise in mountain lore; she was bewitched and half mad with the bewildering emotions that, at one moment frightened her—the next, carried her closer to the spiritual than ...
— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock

... come? Go to thy work; break into song sometimes— Song dying slow-forgotten, in the lapse Of dreamy thought, ere natural pause ensue, Or sudden dropt what time the eager heart Hurries the ready eye to north and east. Sing, maiden, while thou canst, ere yet the truth, Slow darkening, ...
— The Poetical Works of George MacDonald in Two Volumes, Volume I • George MacDonald

... to Maisons, and, on his arrival there, crossed the railway bridge, and found himself almost alone in the broad avenue which runs through the park. As he walked on through the rapidly darkening shadows, he began to feel a strange sensation, as if nothing had happened, and as if he were shaking off, little by little, a hideous nightmare. In a sort of voluntary hallucination, he imagined that he was going, as in former days, to ...
— Prince Zilah, Complete • Jules Claretie

... so they whispered, handling him as if he had been a baby; but Inna's heart ached, hearing him groan and moan, as she stepped into the boat, and nestled beside him, and more, taking his head in her lap; and so they moved off over the darkening seas. ...
— The Heiress of Wyvern Court • Emilie Searchfield

... as ever shed its soft light on the earth; the air was breathless; the sky cloudless; thousands of swallows were upon the wing, some skimming the limpid surface of those old ditches, others gliding on balanced pinions so far aloft in the darkening firmament that the eye could ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various


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