Synonyms for darken
ˈdɑr kəndark·en

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1. darkenverb

   Synonyms:
   blacken

2. darkenverb

   To make dark or darker by reducing light.

   Synonyms:
   blacken

3. darkenverb

   To become dark or darker (having less light).

   Synonyms:
   blacken

4. darkenverb

   To make dark or darker in colour.

   Synonyms:
   blacken

5. darkenverb

   To become dark or darker in colour.

   Synonyms:
   blacken

6. darkenverb

   To render gloomy, dark(er) of mood

   Synonyms:
   blacken

7. darkenverb

   To become gloomy, dark of mood

   Synonyms:
   blacken

8. darkenverb

   To blind, impair eyesight

   Synonyms:
   blacken

9. darkenverb

   To be blinded, loose clear vision

   Synonyms:
   blacken

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1. darkenverb

   Synonyms:
   blacken, color, dye, soil, stain

   Antonyms:
   blanch, bleach, make white, whiten, whitewash

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1. darkenverb

   become dark or darker

   "The sky darkened"

   Antonyms:
   brighten, lighten up, lighten

2. darkenverb

   tarnish or stain

   "a scandal that darkened the family's good name"

   Antonyms:
   lighten, lighten up, brighten

3. darkenverb

   make dark or darker

   "darken a room"

   Antonyms:
   lighten up, brighten, lighten

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   • Tarnish

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1. darkenverb

   Synonyms:
   obscure, cloud, dim, shade, shadow, make dark, make dim

2. darkenverb

   Synonyms:
   grow dark

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1. darkenverb

   Synonyms:
   shade, obscure, infuscate, shadow, becloud, obfuscate, perplex, confuse, sully, tarnish, discolor

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How to use darken in a sentence?

1. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true

2. John Nelson:

   It would literally darken the sky, i remember one day, I was standing back about 300 feet. I could still see the flames rising above the pit.

3. Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature":

   How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

4. Konrad Steffen:

   If you darken the ice then it melts faster. These are new insights.

5. Patrick Henry:

   Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugationthe last arguments to which kings resort.