Darken

/ˈdɑɹkən/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
2. (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
3. (impersonal) To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
4. (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
5. (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
6. (transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
7. (intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood.
8. (transitive) To blind, impair the eyesight.

Example Sentences

[…] they [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened […]

So spake the Sovran voice, and Clouds began To darken all the Hill […]

Almos is a hydrogen-helium gas giant with traces of sodium darkening its atmosphere.

[…] the owl and the bat flew round the darkening trees:

[…] leaning at her window she watched the end of that eventful day darken over the ranges.

Well, I must go in now; and you too: it darkens.

Then they passed out from the Forum, forced their way through the crowded streets, and soon were through the Porta Ratumena, outside the walls, and struck out across the Campus Martius, upon the Via Flaminia. It was rapidly darkening.

From babyhood until fourteen, to play in a garden in the evening when it is darkening is a legend.

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