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Meaning blacken meaning

What does blacken mean?
Definitions in simple English

blacken Verb

— When something is blackened, it is made darker. — Blackened meat or fish is seasoned in spices, mostly in Cajun cooking.

blacken

— verb (= black) make or become black The smoke blackened the ceiling The ceiling blackened — verb (= char, scorch) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color The cook blackened the chicken breast The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece the flames scorched the ceiling

Synonyms blacken synonyms

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blacken English » English

make black darken denigrate black become black scorch nigrify melanize melanise char sully smirch smear sear besmirch stain soil slur slander singe shade malign grime foul dirty defame blackening bespatter become sunburnt become brown acquire a tan vilify traduce spot splotch sooty smut smudge smoke shadow ripe paint obscure nigrescence moil melanism libel ink fill with smoke dye black

Topics blacken topics

What do people use blacken to talk about?
Daily life Fire

Burn
States Quality Light Color

Change color

Conjugation blacken conjugation

How do you conjugate blacken?

blacken · verb

Examples blacken examples

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Simple sentences

The world loves to blacken the radiant and to pull the lofty into the dust.

Movie subtitles

I'll blacken this punk so he'll.
In those days, the black slag, the waste of the coal pits. had only begun to cover the side of our hill. not yet enough to mar the countryside, nor blacken the beauty of our village.
Rather than let you blacken her name with suspicions and rumors.
Your teeth, nose and fingers will blacken and fall off.
I was shocked and surprised to hear Mr. Judson blacken the characters of a man and a woman. whose only offence to society is that they happened to fall in love.
With you in the Senate and me in the House, we'd squeeze an air service out of them that'd blacken the sky with planes.
Or do the skies blacken the souls of men?
It makes no matter whether we wash to whiten or blacken ourselves.
I saw the flames lick his legs, reach his chest, blacken his head and totally consume him.
I did not employ you to come here to blacken the name of the Holdernesses', Mr. Holmes.
To tear down their cities blacken their sky, sow their ground with salt.
And yet, you spoil her lands poison her oceans blacken her skies!
Blacken the eyes.
He's always trying fo blacken me. We made a complainf againsf him.
In those days, the black slag, the waste of the coal pits, had only begun to cover the side of our hill, not yet enough to mar the countryside, nor blacken the beauty of our village.
Yes. Rather than let you blacken her name with suspicions and rumors.
It doesn't matter about the barn. We're going to start the school right here in this room. I'm going to get those youngsters out of that mine if I have to. blacken my face and go down and fetch them myself.
Ladies and gentlemen, I was shocked and surprised to hear Mr. Judson blacken the characters of a man and woman whose only offense to society is that they happened to fall in love.
I'd knock out both his teeth blacken his eyes and rip out every hair from his head.
Do not blacken the name of Lady Yardly.
In order to match M. Wu Ling, he has to blacken the teeth, and, of course, the color comes off on the end of the cigarettes.
I blacken all of them when they have hanged for silence!
I think you should stay. Then you know how it feels to blacken your family.
Do you think I'd blacken my Johnny's memory by getting mixed up with his brother?
Then what's the reason for all this gumshoe work. dragging in all these people to blacken me in this case?
Should you kiss him or blacken his eye?
I wonder why these minstrel fellows blacken their faces in order to play the banjo and sing songs, Jeeves.
Perhaps you should go away and never come back again. Your popularity will be so overwhelming it would blacken the stars.
You don't know how slight a thing can blacken a girl's reputation for life.
Slash, slash! - Here are my principles! Why blacken paper and spill ink?
Do you think i'd blacken my johnny's memory. by getting mixed up with his brother?
You take a quarter and you blacken the edge, right?
We. accuse.. George W. Bush. blacken the name of. of our country.

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