[ UK /blˈækən/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫækən/ ]
VERB
  1. 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
  2. make or become black
    The ceiling blackened
    The smoke blackened the ceiling
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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.
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