blacken

blacken is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make or render black. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make or render black.
2. transitive verb. To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
3. transitive verb. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
4. intransitive verb. To grow black or dark.
5. verb. make or become black

   "The smoke blackened the ceiling"

   "The ceiling blackened"

   Synonyms: black, melanise, melanize, nigrify

6. verb. burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

   "The cook blackened the chicken breast"

   "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"

   Synonyms: char, scorch, sear

Synonyms

black, melanise, melanize, nigrify, char, scorch, sear

Common word forms

blackens, blackened, blackener, blackening

Words from these letters

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