[
UK
/dˈɑːkən/
]
[ US /ˈdɑɹkən/ ]
[ US /ˈdɑɹkən/ ]
VERB
-
make dark or darker
darken a room -
tarnish or stain
a scandal that darkened the family's good name -
become dark or darker
The sky darkened
How To Use darken In A Sentence
- I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room.
- In the darkened room behind this diorama, a wall-sized video projection showed a seascape of lapping waves.
- He overcomes its characteristic darkening during preparation by throwing in a carrot.
- She had been gone about an hour, when the sky suddenly darkened, the wind rose and the thunder rolled in prelude to the storm. The Hidden Hand
- It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason.
- In the darkened theatre, I asked myself what became of her, but I found her in the seat behind me, gin-soaked and belching while she dozed.
- ; the river raced in turbid waves; the sand drove in clouds; and the face of the sky was darkened as if by a London fog. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
- I like to go off on my own - to sit back and bliss out in a darkened move theater.
- They pressed ahead, blundering into the woods through the darkening maze of trees and shrubs. Christianity Today
- The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.