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Changing to a darker color
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blackening
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Blackening is a traditional wedding custom performed in the days or weeks prior to marriages in rural areas of Scotland . The bride and/or groom are 'captured' by friends and family, covered in food, or a variety of other - preferably adhesive - substances, ...
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n. The act of turning black in colour; a black stain or mark. vb. (present participle of blacken English)
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n. changing to a darker color [syn: darkening ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Blacken \Black"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackening .] [See Black , a., and cf. Black , v. t. ] To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. --Pope. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. ``Blackened the whole ...
Usage examples of blackening.
These cases of the simultaneous darkening or blackening of the glands from the action of weak solutions are important, as they show that all the glands absorbed the carbonate within the same time, which fact indeed there was not the least reason to doubt.
The first effect of the carbonate and of certain other salts of ammonia, as well as of some other fluids, is the darkening or blackening of the glands.
They turned away from the bodies curling up in the flames, from the bloody flesh blackening and cracking, and they vomited into the snow.
There were dead men and women in the streets, their bodies blackening in the growing firestorm.
There were thousands of them, blackening the sky, one-man sleds with souped-up engines for more speed, armed to the teeth with bolted-down energy guns and heavy projectile weapons, with long ribbons of bullets.
A gout of fire bloomed in the heaving mass of rats, blackening and roasting scores of the creatures.
Tramps or ex-soldiers passing through town had scattered trash through the rooms and built unconfined cook fires on the hearths, blackening the walls and scorching the ceilings.
He pointed to a broken-backed ruin which stood on the point of land that jutted out onto the waters of the lake, a crumbling structure slowly blackening with time.
On the latter, oddly enough, were still his grimy boots, blackening the white sheets on which they rested.
Beyond his pain for Lizzie, and his distress at the blackening of her reputation, he, too, missed the McGillivrays, missed the joy and comfort of suddenly being part of a large, exuberant family, after so many years of loneliness.
Party-Size Cubelets, all four legs dog-paddling uselessly, the dark surface of the lawn blackening in a pulsing curve before its jaws that open and close.
Over the surface of Hova, the blackening moved like some colossal paintbrush.
The garden is no longer green with fruits and flowers--the festoons no longer grace the lowly portals--the white palings are down and blackening in the gloomy mould--the roofs have fallen, and silence dwells lonely among the ruins,--the only inhabitant of the place.
His forearms showed a strange pattern of blood stains, barbed and striped, the blood blackening and seeming to seep into his skin.
But liberals could at least hope to redeem the Democratic Party by dedicating themselves to rewriting history and blackening reputations.