Hundreds of years ago, married Japanese women would blacken their teeth to beautify themselves.
Source: tatoeba (758017)
Blacken
//ˈblækən//
Synonyms for "blacken" (249 found)
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106 translations across 37 languages.
Akkadian
1 entries- 𒈪 verb (make black)
Albanian
2 entries- nxij verb (make black)
- zeshk verb (make black)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μελαίνω verb (make black)
Arabic
2 entries- اِسْوَدَّ verb (become black)
- سَوَّدَ verb (make black)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
2 entries- ܐܵܟܹܡ verb (become black)
- ܡܲܟܸܡ verb (make black)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- batırmaq verb (make dirty)
- qaralamaq verb (make black)
- qaralamaq verb (make dirty)
- qaralamaq verb (defame, sully)
Belarusian
2 entries- пачарне́ць verb (become black)
- чарне́ць verb (become black)
Bulgarian
4 entries- очерням verb (defame, sully)
- почернявам verb (become black)
- почерням verb (make black)
- цапам verb (make dirty)
Catalan
1 entries- ennegrir verb (make black)
Dutch
1 entries- zwartmaken verb (defame, sully)
Esperanto
2 entries- nigrigi verb (make black)
- nigriĝi verb (become black)
Finnish
4 entries- liata verb (make dirty)
- mustaantua verb (become black)
- mustamaalata verb (defame, sully)
- mustata verb (make black)
French
4 entries- noircir verb (make black)
- noircir verb (defame, sully)
- noircir verb (become black)
- salir verb (defame, sully)
Galician
2 entries- denegrir verb (become black)
- ennegrecer verb (make black)
German
3 entries- anschwärzen verb (defame, sully)
- schwärzen verb (make black)
- verdunkeln verb (become black)
Greek
2 entries- αμαυρώνω verb (make black)
- αμαυρώνω verb (defame, sully)
Hebrew
1 entries- השחיר verb (make black)
Hungarian
1 entries- befeketedik verb (become black)
Ido
2 entries- nigreskar verb (become black)
- nigrigar verb (make black)
Indonesian
1 entries- menghitamkan verb (make black)
Ingrian
1 entries- musseta verb (become black)
Irish
1 entries- dubhaigh verb (make black)
Italian
3 entries- annerire verb (make black)
- annerirsi verb (become black)
- sporcare verb (make dirty)
Marathi
2 entries- काळे करणे verb (make black)
- काळे होणे verb (become black)
Old English
1 entries- sweartian verb (make black)
Persian
1 entries- سیاه کردن verb (make black)
Polish
4 entries- czernieć verb (become black)
- czernić verb (make black)
- oczerniać verb (defame, sully)
- oczernić verb (defame, sully)
Portuguese
4 entries- conspurcar verb (defame, sully)
- denegrir verb (make dirty)
- denegrir verb (defame, sully)
- enegrecer verb (make black)
Romanian
1 entries- înnegri verb (make black)
Russian
4 entries- загрязни́ть verb (make dirty)
- загрязня́ть verb (make dirty)
- замара́ть verb (make dirty)
- запа́чкать verb (make dirty)
Slovak
4 entries- očierniť verb (defame, sully)
- stmavnúť verb (become black)
- sčernieť verb (become black)
- začierniť verb (make black)
Spanish
2 entries- ennegrecer verb (make black)
- tiznar verb (defame, sully)
Swedish
4 entries- svartna verb (become black)
- svärta verb (make black)
- svärta verb (make dirty)
- svärta ner verb (defame, sully)
Tamil
3 entries- அழுக்காக்கு verb (make dirty)
- கரு verb (make black)
- கரு verb (become black)
Telugu
2 entries- నలుపుచేయు verb (make black)
- నల్లబడు verb (become black)
Turkish
2 entries- kararmak verb (become black)
- karartmak verb (make black)
Ukrainian
4 entries- зчорні́ти verb (become black)
- почорні́ти verb (become black)
- чорни́ти verb (make black)
- чорні́ти verb (become black)
Sample sentences
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His roommate would blacken her toast until it set off the fire alarm.
Source: tatoeba (758021)
Blacken the chicken by cooking it on the skillet on high heat for 10 minutes per side.
Source: tatoeba (758027)
Clouds blacken the sky (and everyone's mood).
Source: tatoeba (758031)
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