blacken
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black + -en.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈblækən/
blacken (blackens, present participle blackening; simple past and past participle blackened)
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
- The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.
- (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
- To defame or sully.
- (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
- (make black) black, denigrate
- (make dirty) dirty, soil
- (defame) defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish
- French: noircir
- German: schwärzen
- Italian: annerire
- Portuguese: enegrecer
- Russian: черни́ть
- Spanish: ennegrecer
- French: noircir
- German: verdunkeln (reflexive)
- Italian: annerirsi
- Portuguese: enegrecer
- Russian: черне́ть
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