blacken (verb)

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• blacken — ► VERB 1) become or make black or dark. 2) damage or destroy (someone s reputation) …   English terms dictionary

• blacken — verb a) To make black. Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. mdash; Napoleon Bonaparte b) To make dirty. The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in. Syn: black, denigrate, dirty, soil …   Wiktionary

• blacken — verb Blacken is used with these nouns as the object: ↑name …   Collocations dictionary

• blacken — verb 1 (I, T) to become black, or make something black: Smoke had blackened the ceiling of the room. 2 blacken sb s name/character/reputation etc to say unpleasant things about someone in order to make other people have a bad opinion of them …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• blacken — verb (blackened; blackening) Date: 14th century intransitive verb to become dark or black < the sky blackens > transitive verb 1. to make black 2. defame, sully < blackened her reputat …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• blacken out — verb darken completely The dining room blackened out • Syn: ↑black out • Derivationally related forms: ↑blackout (for: ↑black out) • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• blacken — verb 1》 become or make black or dark. 2》 damage or destroy (someone s reputation) …   English new terms dictionary

• blacken — verb 1) they blackened their faces Syn: black, darken; dirty, make sooty, make smoky, stain, grime, soil Ant: whiten, clean 2) the sky blackened Syn …   Thesaurus of popular words

• blacken — [[t]blæ̱kən[/t]] blackens, blackening, blackened 1) V ERG To blacken something means to make it black or very dark in colour. [V n] The married women of Shitamachi maintained the custom of blackening their teeth... You need to grill the tomatoes… …   English dictionary

• blacken — UK [ˈblækən] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms blacken : present tense I/you/we/they blacken he/she/it blackens present participle blackening past tense blackened past participle blackened to become black, or to make something become …   English dictionary

• blacken — black, blacken verbs. Black is used when the meaning is to deliberately make something black, as in blacking one s face, one s shoes, a person s eye, etc., in the meaning to declare something ‘black’ (i.e. to boycott it), and in the phrasal verb… …   Modern English usage