Crossword-Solution: BLACKEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Blacken | v. t. | To make or render black. |
| Blacken | v. t. | To make dark; to darken; to cloud. |
| Blacken | v. t. | To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character. |
| Blacken | v. i. | To grow black or dark. |
We have 66 clues for the answer “BLACKEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| make or become black | 1 answer |
| make dark | 2 answers |
| make blacker | 2 answers |
| Douse the lights | 2 answers |
| make darker | 3 answers |
| ink in | 3 answers |
| COLLY | 3 answers |
| speak evil of | 4 answers |
| make unclean | 9 answers |
| CAUSE TO DARKEN | 11 answers |
| make black | 21 answers |
| Scandalise | 21 answers |
| Devalue | 23 answers |
| traduce | 24 answers |
| Demean | 25 answers |
| Scorch | 26 answers |
| Calumniate | 29 answers |
| Deepen | 29 answers |
| Vilify | 29 answers |
| Overshadow | 32 answers |
| Char-à-___ | 33 answers |
| Daub | 33 answers |
| smutch | 35 answers |
| Pollute | 36 answers |
| spatter | 36 answers |
| Contaminate | 37 answers |
| Smooch | 37 answers |
| Smudge | 38 answers |
| smirch | 39 answers |
| Befoul | 39 answers |
| Discolor | 40 answers |
| Humiliate | 40 answers |
| besmear | 41 answers |
| Becloud | 42 answers |
| efface | 43 answers |
| Defame | 43 answers |
| Violate | 43 answers |
| Burn | 44 answers |
| MAKE less bright | 44 answers |
| Bedaub | 44 answers |
| Smear | 45 answers |
| Begrime. | 46 answers |
| Badmouth | 47 answers |
| bemire | 47 answers |
| Accuse | 47 answers |
| Dab | 48 answers |
| Bedim | 48 answers |
| asperse | 48 answers |
| Denigrate | 48 answers |
| Plaster | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BLACKEN (5)
The Fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.” Like will draw like.
When Rokoff commenced to blacken about the face Tarzan released his hold and shoved the fellow back into his chair.
And fools, when the fiends of war are out and the city skies aflame, Will have something better to talk about than an absent woman's shame, Will have something nobler to do by far than jest at a friend's expense, Or blacken a name in a public bar or over a backyard fence.
Men asperse their neighbors by malignant insinuations; they defame by advancing charges to blacken or sully their fair fame; they slander or calumniate by spreading injurious reports which are false, or by magnifying slight faults into serious errors or crimes.
For nearly an hour Wyant loitered on the Lizza, watching the shadows race across the naked landscape and the thunder blacken in the west; then he decided to set out for the House of the Dead Hand.
Quotes with BLACKEN (3)
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems.
O woman, father says natural is beautifulso why do you redden your cheeks and blacken your eyes? Why do you remove the hair on your legsand draw them into your brows? Why do you hold your breathlest your stomach showand hold your fartlest they knowthat you’re a human? O woman, father says natural is beautifulso why do you straighten your hairto curl it nextand pretend to orgasm so they think you enjoyed the sex? Why do you dumb yourself downand push your breasts up? Why do yo…
You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it... fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1978–1997).