Lexic.us

Definition of Blacken

1. Verb. Make or become black. "The ceiling blackened"

2. Verb. Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color. "The flames scorched the ceiling"

Definition of Blacken

1. v. t. To make or render black.

2. v. i. To grow black or dark.

Definition of Blacken

1. Verb. To make black. ¹

2. Verb. To make dirty. ¹

3. Verb. To defame or sully. ¹

4. Verb. To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To become black. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blacken

1. to make black [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: black

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blacken

blackchins blackcoat blackcoats blackcock blackcocks blackcurrant blackcurrants blackdamp blackdamps blacke-saint

blacke sanctus blacke santis blacke santus blacke saunts blacked blacken (current term) blacken out blackened blackener blackeners

blackenest blackeneth blackening blackenings blackens blacker blackest blackey blackeye blackeyed

Literary usage of Blacken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Seventh-Day Adventists General Conference. Dept. of Education (1912)
"for the figure, and blacken with charcoal. Touch up the edges with chalk, and add the stars. (See Lesson 11, page 178.) Plate IV may be used for Lesson 24 ..."

2. Bulletin by Seventh-Day Adventists General Conference. Dept. of Education (1912)
"for the figure, and blacken with charcoal. Touch up the edges with chalk, and add the stars. (See Lesson 11, page 178.) Plate IV may be used for Lesson 24 ..."

3. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"Libels Tending to blacken the Memory of the Dead.— It is a misdemeanor at common law, punishable on indictment with fine and imprisonment, ..."

4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... tarnish, stigmatize (rare or literary), blot, blur, spot, cloud, blacken, darken, defile, foul, smirch, defame, asperse (rare), denigrate (rare), ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1841)
"Mr. Robert Mallet communicated a notice of the discovery of the property of the light emitted by incandescent coke to blacken photogenic paper; and proposed ..."

6. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"Libels Tending to blacken the Memory of the Dead.— It is a misdemeanor at common law, punishable on indictment with fine and imprisonment, ..."

7. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... tarnish, stigmatize (rare or literary), blot, blur, spot, cloud, blacken, darken, defile, foul, smirch, defame, asperse (rare), denigrate (rare), ..."

8. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1841)
"Mr. Robert Mallet communicated a notice of the discovery of the property of the light emitted by incandescent coke to blacken photogenic paper; and proposed ..."

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