Darken

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To make dark or darker.
  • intransitive verb. To give a darker hue to.
  • intransitive verb. To fill with sadness; make gloomy.
  • intransitive verb. To render vague or uncertain; obscure.
  • intransitive verb. To tarnish or stain.
  • intransitive verb. To become dark or darker.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To grow dark or darker.
  • To grow less white or clear; assume a darker hue or appearance: as, white paper darkens with age.
  • To deprive of light; make dark or darker: as, to darken a room by closing the shutters.
  • To obscure or shut out the light of.
  • To render less white or clear; impart a darker hue to: as, exposure to the sun darkens the complexion.
  • To obscure or cloud the meaning or intelligence of; perplex; render vague or uncertain.
  • To render gloomy; sadden.
  • To deprive of vision; strike with blindness.
  • Hence To deprive of intellectual or spiritual light; sink in darkness or ignorance.
  • To sully; make foul; make less bright or lustrous.
  • To hide; conceal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To grow or darker.
  • transitive verb. To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure.
  • transitive verb. To render dim; to deprive of vision.
  • transitive verb. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
  • transitive verb. To cast a gloom upon.
  • transitive verb. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make dark or darker by reducing light.
  • verb. To become dark or darker (having less light).
  • verb. To make dark or darker in colour.
  • verb. To become dark or darker in colour.
  • verb. To render gloomy, dark(er) of mood
  • verb. To become gloomy, dark of mood
  • verb. To blind, impair eyesight
  • verb. To be blinded, loose clear vision
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. become dark or darker
  • verb. make dark or darker
  • verb. tarnish or stain
  • Word Usage
    "As Langdon listened to the caller, Hadley watched his expression darken."
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    darkener  
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    defile  maculate  stain  sully  tarnish  
    Rhyme
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    Markan  barkan  harken  
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