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Blackened   /blˈækənd/   Listen
Blackened

adjective
1.
Darkened by smoke.
2.
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood.  Synonym: black.



Blacken

verb
(past & past part. blackened; pres. part. blackening)
1.
Make or become black.  Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize, nigrify.  "The ceiling blackened"
2.
Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color.  Synonyms: char, scorch, sear.  "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece" , "The flames scorched the ceiling"



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"Blackened" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, at length, to the man at his side, a middle-aged man with a blackened, sardonic face and a forehead lined with a scowl of rebellion, "do you suppose I do it for the money? I tell ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... accomplished, that day thirteen months hence would see the annihilation of every living thing on earth, and the planet Terra converted into a dark and lifeless orb, a wilderness drifting through space, the blackened and desolated sepulchre of the countless millions of living beings which ...
— The World Peril of 1910 • George Griffith

... putting on dry stockings, and the no less rare luxury of delightfully pleasant weather, the wind being moderate from the S.S.E. It was so warm in the sun, though the temperature in the shade was only 35 deg., that the tar was running out of the seams of the boats; and a blackened bulb held against the paint-work raised the thermometer to 72 deg. The floes were larger to-day, and the ice, upon the whole, of heavier dimensions than any we had yet met with. The general thickness ...
— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry

... emerged upon a strip of the Kizil-Kum steppe, stretching hence in painful monotony to the bank of the Sir Daria river. This we crossed by a rude rope-ferry, filled at the time with a passing caravan, and then began at once to ascend the valley of the Tchirtchick toward Tashkend. The blackened cotton which the natives were gathering from the fields, the lowering snow-line on the mountains, the muddy roads, the chilling atmosphere, and the falling leaves of the giant poplars—all warned us ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben

... this form has been demanded by public consciousness suggests that the spirit which craves lotteries is surely not absent in the new world, even though the lottery lists in the European newspapers are blackened over before they are laid out in the American public libraries. A certain desire for gambling and quick returns evidently exists the world over. But if the Americans are really speculating more than all the other nations, a ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg


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