BLACKENING

blackening, darkening

(noun) changing to a darker color

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

blackening

present participle of blacken

Noun

blackening (plural blackenings)

The act of turning black in colour; a black stain or mark.

Source: Wiktionary

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BLACKEN

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

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