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Definition of darken:

To cast a gloom upon.
To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
To grow or darker.
To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
To render dim; to deprive of vision.

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.

blacken (part of speech: verb)
- eclipse,
- blacken,
- shadow,
- obscure
dim (part of speech: verb)
- eclipse,
- dim,
- fog,
- obscure,
- shade,
- cloud
obscure (part of speech: verb)
- eclipse,
- fog,
- dim,
- cloud,
- obfuscate,
- overshadow,
- obscure
darken (part of speech: verb)
- cloud,
- obscure,
- shade,
- dim,
- blacken

Usage examples:

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.