darken

dark·en

to become dark or darker

to make dark or darker
to make blind

darken Idioms

not darken someone's door

not come to someone's home

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darken

verb

dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens

verb

transitive

a. To make dark or darker.
b. To give a darker hue to.
To fill with sadness; make gloomy.
To render vague or uncertain; obscure: The sudden drop in stock prices darkened the future for investors.
To tarnish or stain: a scandal that darkened the family's good name.

verb

intransitive

To become dark or darker.

Related Forms:

dark′en·er
noun

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present darkens, present participle darkening, simple past and past participle darkened)

To make dark or darker by reducing light.
(intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
To make dark or darker in colour.
(intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
To render gloomy, darker in mood
(intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood
To blind, impair eyesight
(intransitive) To be blinded, loose clear vision
To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

Anagrams

Origin

From Middle English derkenen, dirkenen, from Old English *deorcnian, *diercnian (“to darken”), equivalent to dark +‎ -en. Cognate with Scots derken, durken (“to darken”), Old High German tarchanjan, terchinen (“to darken”), Middle High German terken, derken (“to darken”).