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BLACKENING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Changing to a darker color
Synonyms:
blackening; darkening
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("blackening" is a kind of...):
change of color (an act that changes the light that something reflects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackening"):
obfuscation (darkening or obscuring the sight of something)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb blacken
