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Blackened

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Darkened to the point of appearing black; as

    "[...] after journeying across pleasant agricultural countryside to Leicester and thence though the blackened and busy industrial area that stretches almost unbrokenly for over 100 miles from Trent through Rotherham and Leeds to Keighley, [...]."

  2. 2
    Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:; Synonym of charred.
  3. 3
    Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:; Synonym of blued.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood wordnet
  2. 2
    darkened by smoke wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of blacken form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English blakend, blakind, blakkenid, blakenid, equivalent to blacken + -ed.

Etymology 2

From Middle English blakend, blakind, blakkenid, blakenid, equivalent to blacken + -ed.

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