Darkened

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]:

  darkened \darkened\ adj.
     overtaken by night or darkness.
  
     Syn: nighted.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  darkened
       adj 1: (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time; "the
              darkened margins of the paper"
       2: become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house";
          "the darkened theater"

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

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "darkened":
     bedazzled, besmirched, blackened, blindfold, blindfolded, dazed,
     dazzled, discolored, excecate, foxed, foxy, hoodwinked, inky,
     murky, obscured, smirched, smoky, snow-blind, snow-blinded, soiled,
     stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, tainted,
     tarnished