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Definition of darken:
Synonyms:
lower, adumbrate, mist, close in, overcast, despair, vitiate, give up on, sink, adumbrate, spoil, haze, deepen, dusk, blemish, fuzz, break, stain, touch, block out, cut out, lose/give up hope, blear, poison, mar, glower, extinguish, befog, becloud, bedim, shroud, black out, wobble, lose heart, say/wave/kiss goodbye to something, tarnish, gloom, overcloud, blur, light, dislimn.
Usage examples:
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So, after a few futile attempts to darken her mind, Gedge put her down as a mere fool woman, and ceased to bother his head about her intellectual development.
- "The Red Planet", William J. Locke. -
He was watching her amazing eyes that surely would have betrayed her had she been at a moment's loss; they did not change nor darken for a second.
- "Winds of the World", Talbot Mundy. -
In the mornings the sun burnt down upon the city with a heat that scorched and consumed; but then clouds heavy and horrible would roll together from all quarters of the heavens, and early in the afternoon the air would darken, and a storm of thunder and lightning, and furious, hissing rain would fall upon the streets.
- "The Great Return", Arthur Machen.