What does blacken mean?

Definitions for blacken
ˈblæk ənblack·en

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, blackverb

    make or become black

    "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

  2. 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

  1. blackenverb

    To make black.

  2. blackenverb

    To make dirty.

  3. blackenverb

    To defame or sully.

    Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. uE000146825uE001 Napoleon Bonaparte

  4. blackenverb

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

  5. blackenverb

    To become black.

    The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. Blackenverb

    to make or render black

  2. Blackenverb

    to make dark; to darken; to cloud

  3. Blackenverb

    to defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character

  4. Blackenverb

    to grow black or dark

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of blacken in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of blacken in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of blacken in a Sentence

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    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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Translations for blacken

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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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