blackened
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English
Etymology
From Middle English blakend, blakind, blakkenid, blakenid, equivalent to blacken + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
blackened (comparative more blackened, superlative most blackened)
- Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:
- 1939 July, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 34:
- [...] after journeying across pleasant agricultural countryside to Leicester and thence though the blackened and busy industrial area that stretches almost unbrokenly for over 100 miles from Trent through Rotherham and Leeds to Keighley, [...].
darkened to the point blackness
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Related terms
- blacked
- blackening (noun)
- blacking (noun)
Verb
blackened
- simple past and past participle of blacken
References
- “blackened”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.