darken
/ˈdɑɹkən/ verb B2- To make dark or darker by reducing light.
- To become dark or darker (having less light).
- To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
- To make dark or darker in colour.
- To become dark or darker in colour.
- To render gloomy, darker in mood.
- To become gloomy, darker in mood.
- To blind, impair the eyesight.
Plural darken · He/she/it darkens · Past darkened · Past participle darkened · -ing form darkening
Verb forms
- Base form
- darken
- He/she/it
- darkens
- Past
- darkened
- Past participle
- darkened
- -ing form
- darkening
From the library
Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under pretence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion’s skin to assume that of the woodman; then, with his hands covered with dirt, his hair darkened by means of a leaden comb, his complexion embrowned with a preparation for which one of his old comrades had given him the recipe, he intended, by following the wooded districts, to reach the nearest frontier, walking by night and sleeping in the day in the forests and quarries, and only entering inhabited regions to buy a loaf from time to time.
Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.
The sky was darkened, and a low rumbling sound was heard in the air.
Villefort’s brow darkened more and more, his white lips and clenched teeth filled Dantès with apprehension.
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