Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To make or render black.
- 2transitive verb
To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
- 3transitive verb
To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
- 4intransitive verb
To grow black or dark.
- 5verb
make or become black
"The smoke blackened the ceiling"
"The ceiling blackened"
- 6verb
burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
"The cook blackened the chicken breast"
"The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"
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