Crossword-Solution: BLACKEN 7 letters, 66 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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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”

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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
REEAT
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.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
When Rokoff commenced to blacken about the face Tarzan released his hold and shoved the fellow back into his chair.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
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.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 2008
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.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
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.
The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) Edith Wharton 1995

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.
Robinson Jeffers Selected 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…
Kamand Kojouri
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.
John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1978–1997).