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infuscate

verb

Etymology

The verb is first attested in 1650, the adjective in 1826; borrowed from Latin īnfuscātus, perfect passive participle of īnfuscō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + fuscō (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).

  1. borrowed from īnfuscātus

Definitions

  1. To darken

    To darken; to make black or obscure.

  2. Clouded with dark shades of brown or black.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for infuscate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA