[ UK /blˈækənd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫækənd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. darkened by smoke
    blackened rafters
  2. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
    a face black with fury
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How To Use blackened In A Sentence

  • The elf cast a jaundiced eye over the blackened mountain, which was still oozing lava.
  • Meanwhile, Robert Downey, Jr. declines an offer to do Arctic Thunder in blackened face. The Volokh Conspiracy » Iceland Jokes
  • 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.
  • The witch doctor's eyes were well blackened, and his temper none of the best; for he quarrelled with the chief over the possession of Wertz's rifle, and took more than his share of the part-sack of beans. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
  • The impact caused a fire in the rear of the vehicle which then spread inside and raged through the entire bus, leaving nothing but a blackened skeleton.
  • Blackened and degraded by centuries of dust and dirt, they emerged in a remarkable state of preservation that gives an excellent idea of their intended flamboyance.
  • With a determined step she marched purposely toward the blackened doorway.
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