Darkening

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]:

  Darkening \Dark"en*ing\, n.
     Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Wright.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  darkening
       adj 1: becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding
              over; "the darkening sky"
       2: characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at
          the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions";
          "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy";
          "the darkening mood" [syn: {gloomy}, {grim}]
       n : changing to a darker color [syn: {blackening}]

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

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "darkening":
     blackening, blocking the light, burial, burying, clouding,
     concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness,
     deception, denigration, dimming, eclipsing, extinguishment,
     hiddenness, hiding, interment, invisibility, masking, melanization,
     mystification, nigrification, obfuscation, obnubilation,
     obscuration, obscurement, obumbration, occultation, occulting,
     overcast, overclouding, overshading, overshadowing, overshadowment,
     putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, shading, shadowing,
     smirch, smirching, smudge, smudging, smut, smutch, smutching,
     subterfuge, uncommunicativeness