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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of opaque.

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Examples

  • But even that was a problem because every page of black plate film had all the word balloons opaqued out — a common thing to happen when a book is printed in a foreign country where the English words are covered up and replaced with the host language.

    KC Recalls the Creation of the V for Vendetta Collection » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • But, an opaqued over window could be just as depressing as looking at a neighbor with questionable taste.

    PrairieMod Monday 2008

  • Gaber was fast asleep in his, the windows were opaqued in the other sleeping-quarters so he did not intrude.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • Blood dripped from Charlie's nose and opaqued his faceplate.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • An eyeblink later he had opaqued his ZeroFear wireless wraparounds and downloaded his favorite politic-pundit vidblog.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • We found the emergency release latches around the opaqued chest cavity of the mech, following the seam just above the window slit.

    365 tomorrows » 2006 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • If I had a nickle for every time someone in a science fiction story "opaqued the windows" at the touch of a button, or did something equivalent, instead of drawing old-fashioned drapes, I'd ... well, I'd have quite a few nickles.

    Archive 2006-05-28 Edward Willett 2006

  • If I had a nickle for every time someone in a science fiction story "opaqued the windows" at the touch of a button, or did something equivalent, instead of drawing old-fashioned drapes, I'd ... well, I'd have quite a few nickles.

    Another staple of science fiction becomes reality Edward Willett 2006

  • Justine stared at them for a while, then opaqued the glass.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

  • The latter film is particularly memorable, with Udo Kier's Dr. Jekyll periodically excusing himself from his dinner guests (including Patrick Magee) to thrash about in a chemically-treated bath, emerging as the vicious rapist Mr Hyde (Gérard Zalcberg), whose knife-like phallus is digitally opaqued in the only uncut version of the film I've seen (from Japan).

    The Passing of a Eurocult Master 2006

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