[
UK
/dˈɑːkənd/
]
[ US /ˈdɑɹkənd/ ]
[ US /ˈdɑɹkənd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
become or made dark by lack of light
a darkened house
the darkened theater -
(of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time
the darkened margins of the paper
How To Use darkened 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.
- The lights up and down the street fizzled and popped, their sparks the last bit of light on a suddenly darkened street.
- The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly. The Dew of Their Youth
- Confusion darkened her eyes and lowered her brows in a frown.
- In the darkened room behind this diorama, a wall-sized video projection showed a seascape of lapping waves.
- 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
- 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.
- The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.