blacken, melanize, melanise, black
(verb) make or become black; “The smoke blackened the ceiling”; “The ceiling blackened”
char, blacken, sear, scorch
(verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; “The cook blackened the chicken breast”; “The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece”; “the flames scorched the ceiling”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
blacken (third-person singular simple present blackens, present participle blackening, simple past and past participle blackened)
(transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
(intransitive, ergative) To become black.
(transitive, causative) To make dirty.
To defame or sully.
(transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc, and quickly searing in a hot pan.
• (make black): black, denigrate
• (make dirty): dirty, soil
• (defame): defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish
Source: Wiktionary
Black"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackened; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackening.] Etym: [See Black, a., and cf. Black, v. t. ]
1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope
2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South.
3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
Syn.
– To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse.
Black"en, v. i.
Definition: To grow black or dark.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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