Meaning of DARKENING
| Pronunciation: | | d'ârkuning
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- [n] changing to a darker color
- [adj] becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over; "the darkening sky"
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DARKENING is a 9 letter word that starts with D. |
| | Synonyms: | | blackening, dark |
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| | See Also: | | change of color, obfuscation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dark"en*ing\, n.
Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Wright.
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| | Related Terms: | | blackening, blocking the light, burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, deception, denigration, dimming, eclipsing, extinguishment, hiddenness, hiding, interment, invisibility, masking, melanization, mystification, nigrification, obfuscation, obnubilation, obscuration, obscurement, obumbration, occultation, occulting, overcast, overclouding, overshading, overshadowing, overshadowment, putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, shading, shadowing, smirch, smirching, smudge, smudging, smut, smutch, smutching, subterfuge, uncommunicativeness |
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