darken
/ˈdɑɹkən/ verbe B2En français : obscurcir, assombrir, foncer
- 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.
Pluriel darken · He/she/it darkens · Prétérit darkened · Participe passé darkened · Forme en -ing darkening
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- darken
- He/she/it
- darkens
- Prétérit
- darkened
- Participe passé
- darkened
- Forme en -ing
- darkening
Dans la bibliothèque
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.
In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth.
It can’t be denied your hair is terrible red; but I knew a girl once--went to school with her, in fact--whose hair was every mite as red as yours when she was young, but when she grew up it darkened to a real handsome auburn.
But then, alas, shadows began to darken over their path.
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