blacken
verbEtymology
From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black + -en (verbal suffix).
- inherited from blaknen
Definitions
To cause to be or become black.
To become black.
- The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.
To make dirty.
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To defame or sully.
To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
The neighborhood
- synonymblack
- synonymblacken
- synonymblack up
- synonymblackwash
- synonymblatch
- synonymbletch
- synonymdenigrate
- synonymforswart
- synonyminfuscate
- synonymnigrify
- synonympitch
- synonymswart
- neighborblack color
- neighborcolor
- neighbordarken
- neighbordirty
- neighborrecolor
- neighboroverblacken
- neighborreblacken
- neighborbesmut
- neighborbesoot
- neighborcarbonize
- neighborcollow
- neighborcork
Derived
blackened crust, blackener, blackenization, blackenize, overblacken, reblacken
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at blacken. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at blacken. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at blacken
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA