dark
/dɑɹk/ noun C2- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. · Dark surrounds us completely.
- Ignorance. · We kept him in the dark.· The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
- Nightfall. · It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
- A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
Plural darks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Dorothy sat up and noticed that the house was not moving; nor was it dark, for the bright sunshine came in at the window, flooding the little room.
It was almost dark under the trees, for the branches shut out the daylight; but the travelers did not stop, and went on into the forest.
It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily.
Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.
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