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 Definitions for Blacken: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Blacken \Black"en\, v. i.
To grow black or dark.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Blacken \Black"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackened; p. pr. &
vb. n. Blackening.] [See Black, a., and cf. Black, v.
t. ]
1. To make or render black.
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While the long funerals blacken all the way. --Pope.
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2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole
heavens." --South.
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3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as,
vice blackens the character.
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Syn: To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate;
traduce; malign; asperse.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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blacken
v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling";
"The ceiling blackened" [syn: melanize, melanise, nigrify,
black] [ant: whiten]
2: 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" [syn: char, scorch]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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124 Moby Thesaurus words for "blacken":
abuse, asperse, attaint, bark at, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, bedim,
begloom, begrime, berate, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch,
besoil, bespatter, bestain, betongue, black, black out, blackwash,
block the light, blot, blot out, blotch, blow upon, blur, brand,
brown, call names, cast a shadow, cast aspersions on, censure,
charcoal, cloud, cloud over, cork, darken, darken over, daub,
defame, defile, denigrate, dim, dim out, dinge, dirty, disapprove,
discolor, discredit, disparage, ebonize, eclipse, encloud,
encompass with shadow, engage in personalities, execrate, expose,
expose to infamy, fulminate against, gibbet, gloom, hang in effigy,
heap dirt upon, ink, jaw, libel, load with reproaches, malign,
mark, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, obfuscate, obnubilate,
obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud,
overshadow, oversmoke, pillory, rag, rail at, rate, rave against,
reprimand, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, slander,
slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch,
soil, somber, soot, spot, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish,
throw mud at, thunder against, tongue-lash, traduce, vilify,
vituperate, yell at, yelp at
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