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UK
/blˈækən/
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[ US /ˈbɫækən/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫækən/ ]
VERB
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burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
the flames scorched the ceiling
The cook blackened the chicken breast
The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece -
make or become black
The ceiling blackened
The smoke blackened the ceiling
How To Use blacken In A Sentence
- The elf cast a jaundiced eye over the blackened mountain, which was still oozing lava.
- Keep the artichoke in a bowl of water with a lemon squeezed into it, (rather grandly called acidulated water), this stops the heart from blackening when it is exposed.
- Meanwhile, Robert Downey, Jr. declines an offer to do Arctic Thunder in blackened face. The Volokh Conspiracy » Iceland Jokes
- Use thicker-fleshed chiles, such as poblanos, and allow their skin to blacken and blister without burning through the flesh.
- As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines, [FN#464] 'Quoth she to me,' I see thou dy'st thy hoariness; 'and I,' I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou mine ear and eye! ' Arabian nights. English
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- Ash was now falling on to the ships, darker and denser the closer they went, together with pieces of pumice and rocks that were blackened and shattered by fire.
- The blackened walls from a fire that happened some four years ago reeked of cigarette smoke and mustiness.
- Dressed again in wadmal, leather gloves, leather apron, and wooden shoes, beard and mane full of the soot that blackened his skin, the dwarf gripped a piece with tongs and banged it into shape. Operation Luna
- A Yorkshire historian is calling on the Queen to help to clear Richard III of the double child murder which has blackened his reputation for more than 500 years.