intransitive verb. To make black.

intransitive verb. To sully or defame.

intransitive verb. To coat (fish or meat, for example) with pepper and other spices and then quickly sear in a very hot skillet, thereby producing meat that is black on the outside but tender on the inside.

intransitive verb. To become dark or black.

To grow black or dark.

To make black; darken.

Figuratively, to sully; make infamous; defame; cause to appear immoral or vile: as, vice blackens the character.

In founding, to coat (the face of a mold) with graphite, or any mixture used for the purpose, in order to create a surface which will gasify under the heat of the molten metal.

transitive verb. To make or render black.

transitive verb. To make dark; to darken; to cloud.

transitive verb. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous.

intransitive verb. To grow black or dark.

verb. To make black.

verb. To make dirty.

verb. To defame or sully.

verb. To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.

verb. To become black.

verb. make or become black

verb. burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

"Although there are two distinct schools of thought on grilled chicken, one that advocates par boiling and one that does not, Mexican cooks do not par boil and are not afraid to let the chicken skin blacken on the outside while the chicken cooks through."

stain  sully  

color  colour  discolor  discolour  

Machen  bracken  slacken  

broken-off  char  half-burned  tattooing  

abuse  asperse  asperse  attaint  bark at  

blackened  blackening  blackens  blacking