Darken

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Darken \Dark"en\ (d[aum]rk"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Darkened}
     (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Darkening} (-n*[i^]ng).] [AS.
     deorcian. See {Dark}, a.]
     1. To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure;
        as, a darkened room.
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              They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth,
              so that the land was darkened.        --Ex. x. 15.
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              So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began
              To darken all the hill.               --Milton.
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     2. To render dim; to deprive of vision.
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              Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
                                                    --Rom. xi. 10.
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     3. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or
        intelligible.
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              Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom
              darkenhis foresight.                  --Bacon.
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              Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without
              knowledge?                            --Job.
                                                    xxxviii. 2.
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     4. To cast a gloom upon.
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              With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
              The mirth of the feast.               --Shak.
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     5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
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              I must not think there are
              Evils enough to darken all his goodness. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Darken \Dark"en\, v. i.
     To grow or darker.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  darken
       v 1: become dark or darker; "The sky darkened" [ant: {brighten}]
       2: become or make darker; "The screen darkend"; "He darkened
          the colors by adding brown" [syn: {dim}] [ant: {brighten}]
       3: tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good
          name"
       4: make dark or darker; "darken a room" [ant: {brighten}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  139 Moby Thesaurus words for "darken":
     attaint, bandage, beat down, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, bedazzle,
     bedim, befog, begloom, bemist, benight, besmear, besmirch, besmoke,
     bestain, black, black out, blacken, blackwash, blanch, blind,
     blind the eyes, blindfold, block the light, blot, blot out, blotch,
     blur, blush, brand, brown, cast a shadow, cast down, change color,
     charcoal, clabber up, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, color, cork,
     crimson, damp, dampen, dampen the spirits, darken over, darkle,
     dash, daub, daze, dazzle, deject, denigrate, depress,
     deprive of sight, dim, dim out, dinge, dirty, discolor, discourage,
     dishearten, dispirit, dusk, ebonize, eclipse, encloud,
     encompass with shadow, enmist, excecate, flush, fog, glare, gloam,
     gloom, glow, gouge, grow dark, grow dim, haze, hoodwink, ink,
     knock down, look black, lower, lower the spirits, make blind,
     mantle, mark, melanize, mist, murk, nigrify, nubilate, obfuscate,
     obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, opaque, oppress,
     overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pale, press down,
     redden, sadden, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, sink, slubber,
     slur, smear, smirch, smog, smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, snow-blind,
     soil, somber, soot, strike blind, taint, tarnish, turn color,
     turn pale, turn red, weigh heavy upon, weigh upon, whiten