Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
(of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time;
- Example: "the darkened margins of the paper"2.
become or made dark by lack of light;
- Example: "a darkened house"- Example: "the darkened theater"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Darken \Dark"en\ (d[aum]rk"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Darkened
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Darkening (-n*[i^]ng).] [AS.
deorcian. See Dark, a.]
1. To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure;
as, a darkened room.
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They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth,
so that the land was darkened. --Ex. x. 15.
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So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began
To darken all the hill. --Milton.
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2. To render dim; to deprive of vision.
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Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see.
--Rom. xi. 10.
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3. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or
intelligible.
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Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom
darkenhis foresight. --Bacon.
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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without
knowledge? --Job.
xxxviii. 2.
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4. To cast a gloom upon.
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With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
The mirth of the feast. --Shak.
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5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
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I must not think there are
Evils enough to darken all his goodness. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
darkened \darkened\ adj.
overtaken by night or darkness.
Syn: nighted.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
darkened
adj 1: (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time;
"the darkened margins of the paper"
2: become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house";
"the darkened theater"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "darkened":
bedazzled, besmirched, blackened, blindfold, blindfolded, dazed,
dazzled, discolored, excecate, foxed, foxy, hoodwinked, inky,
murky, obscured, smirched, smoky, snow-blind, snow-blinded, soiled,
stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, tainted,
tarnished