blacken

[US]/'blæk(ə)n/
[UK]/'blækən/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. make or become black; slander or defame

vi. become black

Phrases & Collocations

The blackened sky

Blackened reputation

Blackened pan

Blackened teeth

Blackened character

Blackened heart

Blackened truth

Example Sentences

Clouds blacken the heavens.

a scandal that blackened the mayor's name.

His face was blackened with coal.

The sky blackened and soon it began to rain.

Don’t blacken my name by spreading rumors.

she won't thank you for blackening her husband's name.

Cassie found it necessary to explain her blackened eye.

He blackens his opponents by giving them names.

Ebony fingerboard, rosewood endpin, blackened tailpiece.

his blackened finger was testimony to the fact that he had played in pain.

One could see the blackened areas where the branches had rotted off.

her hideously charred and blackened features

It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and heavily raftered with huge balks of age-blackened oak.

He landed catfooted on the blackened streak—still hot enough to scorch his boots—that his landing had gouged into the deck.

Blackened chicken and shrimp in a spity Jambalaya sauce with crawfish, Andouille sausage and Tasso ham served on linguini and topped with fresh scallions.

Lacquer timber surface gives heavy blackening: The likelihood is knag going up Qi Qian was not sealed, classics sun is basked in, knag be heated, colophony from knag inside oozy and cause.

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