The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blacken \Black"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackened; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackening.] [See Black, a., and cf. Black, v. t. ]
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To make or render black.
While the long funerals blacken all the way.
--Pope. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. ``Blackened the whole heavens.''
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To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
Syn: To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse.
Wiktionary
Darkened to the degree that something appears almost black in color. v
(en-past of: blacken)
WordNet
adj. darkened by smoke; "blackened rafters"
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black]
Usage examples of "blackened".
Madelaine Skye beat at her smoldering clothes with her hands, blackened and scorched but still very much alive.
I may here add, in order not to recur to the papillae, that they do not secrete, but are easily permeated by various fluids: thus when living or dead leaves are immersed in a solution of one part of chloride of gold, or of nitrate of silver, to 437 of water, they are quickly blackened, and the discoloration soon spreads to the surrounding tissue.
I looked at it again after the interval of an hour, the glands were blackened, and there was wellmarked aggregation.
The glands were blackened from the aggregation of their protoplasmic contents.
The glands which had been in contact with them, instead of being much blackened, were of a very pale colour, and many of them were evidently killed.
On the third day the glands in contact with the haematin were blackened, and some of the tentacles seemed injured.
This result is analogous to that which follows from the immersion of leaves in a strong solution of one part of the carbonate to 109, or 146, or even 218 of water, for the leaves are then paralysed and no inflection ensues, though the glands are blackened, and the protoplasm in the cells of the tentacles undergoes strong aggregation.
The glands on the central disc were blackened, and had ceased secreting.
No movement ensued, but some few of the glands were blackened and shrivelled, whilst many became quite pale.
A piece of leaf immersed in a few drops of a solution of one part of carbonate of ammonia to 437 of water had all the glands blackened and all the tentacles inflected in 5 m.
The heat blazed up, hot enough to burn him down to blackened bone, and he withstood it.
The brickwork was blackened and scorched, and the windows were all smashed, but otherwise it had held together.
In seconds there was nothing left of the Blackthorn but a blackened frame in an inferno of flames.
But the thought of turning over a blackened corpse and finding her rings on the charred fingers was still too much to bear for the moment And so he sat where he was, watching what remained of the Blackthorn steam and smolder, and waited for Investigator Topaz to wake up.
The bridge exploded as it took a direct hit, and the lifeless body of the Captain was thrown through a window, his blackened form hitting the deck hard, to lie still and smoking and unnoticed.