Meaning

(transitive) To make dusky or obscure..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make dusky or obscure.
2. (intransitive) To grow or become dusky.

Example Sentences

It was last seen and heard of by some macgillic-cuddies above a lonely valley of their reeks, duskening the greylight as it flew, its cry echechohoing among the anfractuosities: pour la dernière fois,' The blackbulled ones, stampeding, drew in their horns, all appailed and much upset, which explaints the guttermilk on their overcoats.

Twilight began to dusken the quiet of the house.

The sayd epigrame was not utterly defaced, but only duskened or rased.

Noble you must be: noble too am I / If true the tale that Danewulf loves to tell / When twilight duskens round the crackling logs

He vanished so quickly that she looked down the duskening street in vain to see a stalwart officer, whom she had fully intended to accompany on his way to get a little better acquainted with him.

When in a meadow, or, as now, in a quiet, already duskening wood, he would involuntarily begin to wonder if, through this silence, he might perhaps hear the entire, enormous world traversing space with a melodious whistle, the bustle of distant cities, the pounding of sea waves, the singing of telegraph wires above the deserts.

Word Forms

• duskens
• duskening
• duskened

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When Should You Use Dusken?

Use dusken when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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