darken

darken is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
2. adjective. To render dim; to deprive of vision.
3. adjective. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
4. adjective. To cast a gloom upon.
5. adjective. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
6. intransitive verb. To grow or darker.
7. verb. make dark or darker

   "darken a room"

8. verb. become dark or darker

   "The sky darkened"

9. verb. tarnish or stain

   "a scandal that darkened the family's good name"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in darken:

danker, endark, kanred, narked, ranked

Common word forms

darkens, darkened, darkener, darkening

Words from these letters

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