black
/blæk/ verb B2- To make black; to blacken.
- To apply blacking to (something).
He/she/it blacks · Past blacked · Past participle blacked · -ing form blacking
Verb forms
- Base form
- black
- He/she/it
- blacks
- Past
- blacked
- Past participle
- blacked
- -ing form
- blacking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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In age he was rather younger than Douglas—forty-five at the most—a tall, straight, broad-chested fellow with a clean-shaved, prize-fighter face, thick, strong, black eyebrows, and a pair of masterful black eyes which might, even without the aid of his very capable hands, clear a way for him through a hostile crowd.
“Look round you then.” Dantès rose and looked forward, when he saw rise within a hundred yards of him the black and frowning rock on which stands the Château d’If.
He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.
Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of black bees came flying toward her.
Other matches
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