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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| | Synonyms: | | blackening, dark |
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| | See Also: | | change of color, obfuscation | |
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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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