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English
Etymology
be- + darken
Pronunciation
Verb
bedarken (third-person singular simple present bedarkens, present participle bedarkening, simple past and past participle bedarkened)
- To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 6: Hero-Worship”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem):#*: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous
1962, Joseph Gies, Adventure Underground: Tunnels, page 260:Even if there had been a glimmer of light, the dust would have robbed us of it; it was dense enough to bedarken an out-of-doors spot.
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