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darken | American Dictionary

darken
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈdɑr·kən/
to become or make something dark:
[ I ]The sky darkened as thick smoke billowed from the refinery.
[ T ]She pulled down the shades to darken the room.

Examples of darken

darken
Abdomen almost unicolorous, but darkening gradually towards the margins and posteriorly.
The wood used internally and externally had originally a deep golden honey colour, which has darkened with time.
After ecdysis the pupa was pale greenish, but it rapidly hardened and darkened to brown with traces of green coloration under the wings.
The two male protagonists retreat into a darkened interior, darkened both figuratively and metaphorically.
Thus, the darkened, presumably degenerating, photoreceptors predominantly appeared to consist of principal and accessory cones.
After the fish had taken the food and had left the rewarded test field, the display was darkened.
Either it had darkened as he grew older in life, or it was discoloured by some chemical process that occurred in the grave.
The topsoils were slightly darkened to only a few centimetres and few mineral particles were seen in the necromass, indicating limited pedoturbation.
The months of negotiations and labour preceding this landmark flight, however, had hardly gone as smoothly as the lift-off from the darkened savannah runway.
In addition, the white spot marking the animal pole often had an irregularly shaped darkened ring of pigment around it.
Others, however, became disheartened and even disillusioned with organised religion and never darkened a chapel door again.
Another suggestion was that the dark areas darkened in spring as the known light patches within the dark areas were filled with new dark spots.
Eyes "dilated and darkened," he transforms himself into a "magnificent fiend," launching his "murderous will" at the image (316).
Concentrations higher than the optimum and exposure times .18 - 24 h caused decreased germination; rootlets showed stunted growth, tips became brownish or darkened, and hypocotyls were severely shortened.
He says: a chorus that is part of the action must not be set as polyphony unless the meaning is supposed to be disturbed and the words darkened.
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