[ UK /blˈækənɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫækənɪŋ, ˈbɫæknɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. changing to a darker color
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How To Use blackening In A Sentence

  • In the spring fire swept across the hills, blackening them.
  • This blackening process has characteristics such as simple, non - toxic , hight effective, low cost, etc.
  • The combative Canadian businessman summarily ejected him from the board, blackening his character as a mole and provider of information to the tabloid press.
  • This black varnish was applied presumably as an element of mourning, or, as Edwards suggested, either to match japanned furniture in the room or in reaction to the blackening of the silvering by tarnishing.
  • At last, I lost command of myself, for my heart was aflame with fire unquenchable and lowe unconcealable and I said, “O young men, will ye not relieve my trouble and acquaint me with the reason of thus blackening your faces and the meaning of your words: — We were sitting at our ease but our frowardness brought us unease?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • I have no resentment of animosity against the gentleman [Jefferson] and abhor the idea of blackening his character or transmitting him in odious colors to posterity. Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, John Adams Did Not Think Governments Must Be Administered by the Holy Ghost
  • Film form - ing mechanism of ambient temperature blackening.
  • On his sleeve the blackening gold braid ran in the undulating rings of a lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. In his hand he carried a half-empty seaman's kitbag with some articles in it. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
  • Although the colour of the cap is quite variable, the blackening should serve to distinguish it from other similar looking fungi.
  • He pulled her to him, and hit her twice across the face, blackening her right eye, and bruising her cheek.
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