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Blackening   /blˈækənɪŋ/  /blˈæknɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Blacken  v. t.  (past & past part. blackened; pres. part. blackening)  
1.
To make or render black. "While the long funerals blacken all the way."
2.
To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens."
3.
To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
Synonyms: To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse.


Blacken  v. i.  To grow black or dark.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Blackening" Quotes from Famous Books



... rocks sit lone; The shifting sand lies so smooth and dry That not a wave might ever have swept by To vex it with loud moan. Only some weedy fragments blackening grown To dry beneath the sky, tells what has been; But desolation's ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... "No blackening and no smell of burned powder," he thought. "He must have been shot from outside the cab." But he found it hard to understand how such a shot could have been fired from the populous streets of London. The hole also seemed too far round towards the ...
— The Pit Prop Syndicate • Freeman Wills Crofts
... year wouldn't be too often to seize upon sinners whose blameless life has placed them above suspicion, and turn them inside out before the community, so as to show people how the smoke of the Pit had been quietly blackening their interior. That would destroy character as a cult." He laughed again. "Well, this isn't business,—though it isn't pleasure, either, exactly. What I came for was to ask you something. I've finished at the Law School, and I'm just ready to begin here in the office with ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... the garrets and the cellars, calling them to come and be Anglicized. And they came in a great straggling procession recruited from every lane and by-way, big children and little children, boys in blackening corduroy, and girls in washed-out cotton; tidy children and ragged children; children in great shapeless boots gaping at the toes; sickly children, and sturdy children, and diseased children; bright-eyed children and hollow-eyed children; quaint sallow foreign-looking children, ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... judgment has been prejudiced in Saul's favour by Samuel's curse, and to David's disadvantage by Samuel's blessing; the picture of the one has not suffered from the blackening so much as that of the ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen


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