Definitions
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- adjective Darkened to the degree that something appears almost
black in color. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
blacken .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective darkened by smoke
- adjective (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
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Examples
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Meanwhile, Robert Downey, Jr. declines an offer to do Arctic Thunder in blackened face.
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I loved the way it was slightly blackened from the fire.
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The vacuum sucked the oxygen from his lungs, his veins exploded as his blood broiled and his skin blackened and cracked as it froze.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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The vacuum sucked the oxygen from his lungs, his veins exploded as his blood broiled and his skin blackened and cracked as it froze.
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He was covered head to toe in blackened flesh and stage blood.
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He ran up the ladder, and soon my portmanteau blackened the hatchway, and a great straining and squeezing began.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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The deck of the cruiser was torn and blackened from the German fire; here and there were sailors in bandages.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923
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A thousand times Mildred asked herself, "How can I go out and face the world with my name blackened by this great cloud of shame?"
Without a Home Edward Payson Roe 1863
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So lonesome that there were times when life looked absolutely worthless; when the blue devils made him their plaything, and he saw Billy Louise looking scornfully upon him and loving some other man better; when he saw his name blackened by the suspicion that he was a rustler -- preying upon his neighbors 'cattle; when he saw Buck Olney laughing in derision of his mercy and fixing fresh evidence against him to confound him utterly.
The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905
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The accused gets his name blackened, the prosecutor gets his name out as an “advocate for women,” and he doesn’t even have to go to trial. the only thing left to do in this case is to sue the guy in civil court and bankrupt him.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Charges Filed 32 Years After Alleged Rape Have Now Been Dropped: 2007
chained_bear commented on the word blackened
Added to my list in the sense of cooked-on seasonings (e.g. blackened fish, blackened chicken).
January 16, 2009