BLACKEN

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope

2.
v.

To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South.

3.
v.

To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

4.
v.

To grow black or dark.

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