darkening
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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