What does blacken mean?
Definitions for blacken
ˈblæk ənblack·en
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word blacken.
Princeton's WordNet
blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, blackverb
make or become black
"The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
char, blacken, sear, scorchverb
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"
Wiktionary
blackenverb
To make black.
blackenverb
To make dirty.
blackenverb
To defame or sully.
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. uE000146825uE001 Napoleon Bonaparte
blackenverb
To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
blackenverb
To become black.
The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Blackenverb
Etymology: from black.
Bless’d by aspiring winds, he finds the strand
Blacken’d by crouds. Matthew Prior.While the long fun’rals blacken all the way. Alexander Pope.
That little cloud that appear’d at first to Elijah’s servant, no bigger than a man’s hand, but presently after grew, and spread, and blackened the face of the whole heaven. South.
Let us blacken him what we can, said that miscreant Harrison, of the blessed king, upon the wording and drawing up his charge against his approaching trial. South.
The morals blacken’d, when the writings ’scape
The libell’d person, and the pictur’d shape. Alexander Pope.To Blackenverb
To grow black.
The hollow sound
Sung in the leaves, the forest shook around,
Air blacken’d, roll’d the thunder, groan’d the ground. Dryden.
ChatGPT
blacken
To blacken means to make or become darker or black, often referring to burning, charring, soot covering or becoming extremely dirty. It can be used literally, such as when cooking, or figuratively to imply damaging reputation.
Webster Dictionary
Blackenverb
to make or render black
Blackenverb
to make dark; to darken; to cloud
Blackenverb
to defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character
Blackenverb
to grow black or dark
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of blacken in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of blacken in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of blacken in a Sentence
Caters News Agency -RRB- Searles:
Caters News Agency -RRB- Searles, Caters News Agency -RRB- Searles, said.Yet as my skin started to blacken and die, I was on so much pain medication that I couldnt feel anything I just knew something was really badly wrong. My skin completely died and Ive been left in constant pain.
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- очерням, почерням, цапам, почернявамBulgarian
- nigrigiEsperanto
- mustataFinnish
- noircir, souiller, salirFrench
- השחירHebrew
- nigreskarIdo
- annerire, sporcareItalian
- zwartmakenDutch
- enegrecer, conspurcarPortuguese
- испачкать, почернеть, пачкать, очернять, марать, зачернить, чернеть, загрязнять, чернить, очернить, замарать, загрязнить, запачкать, измаратьRussian
- svärta, svärta ner, svartnaSwedish
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