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blacken, v.|ˈblæk(ə)n|
[ME. blakne(n, blackone(n f. black a. + -en.]
1. intr. To become or grow black. lit. and fig.
a1300Cursor M. 17430 To blacken þan bigan þair brous. c1400Destr. Troy. xxii. 9134 Blaknet with bleryng all hir ble qwite. Ibid. xxvi. 10706 All blackonet his blode, & his ble chaunget. 1758Johnson Idler No. 17 ⁋2, I..believe that rain will fall when the air blackens. 1871Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. (1878) 193 It may blacken into cynicism.
2. trans. To make black or dark. lit. and fig.
1552Huloet, To make blacke, or blacken, denigro. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. V, Wks. (1711) 85 Calumnies, tho' they do not burn, yet blacken. 1660Trial Regic. 45 To draw up that Impeachment so, as to Blacken Him. 1712Steele Spect. No. 518 ⁋2 You ought to have blackened the edges of a paper which brought us so ill news. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. vi, The Birds..blackening all the air.
Hence ˈblackened ppl. a., ˈblackening vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1400Apol. Loll. 55 Corrumping cold and blakning. 1513Douglas æneis iii. i. 122 Crownit..with the bleknyt cipres deidlie bewis. 1660Trial Regic. 55 The Blackning of the King. 1725Pope Odyss. vii. 161 Some dry the black'ning clusters in the sun. 1793Holcroft Lavater's Physiog. xxix. 144 Smellfungus views all objects through a blackened glass. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xxiv, The blight and blackening which it leaves behind. 1842Miall Nonconf. II. 249 More than they fear a blackened reputation. |