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Antonyms for darkened

Grammar : Verb
Spell : dahr-kuhn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɑr kən

Definition of darkened

Origin :
  • c. 1300, "to make dark;" late 14c., "to become dark," from dark (adj.) + -en (1). The more usual verb in Middle English was simply dark, as it is in Chaucer and Shakespeare, and darken did not predominate until 17c. The Anglo-Saxons also had a verb sweorcan meaning "to grow dark." To darken someone's door (usually with a negative) is attested from 1729.
  • verb become shaded, unlit
Example sentences :
  • The face of the Gascon darkened, and his eyes flashed with resentment.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Behind him, in a darkened room, a barkeeper was wiping the bar with a clean cloth.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • She was very certain that her eyes had not been darkened as to lids or waxed as to lashes.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • All the long, beautiful October went by, and still he lay in the darkened room.
  • Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • But as she sat "hooking-in," the window was darkened, and involuntarily she lifted her eyes.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • The blue of Evadna's eyes darkened and darkened until they were almost black.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • How could the arrows be white when even the sun was darkened by the black-winged creatures?
  • Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd
  • More subtly we felt it, as one knows of a presence in a darkened room.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • The sky favored my design, and darkened all things with a sea of clouds.
  • Extract from : « The Room in the Dragon Volant » by J. Sheridan LeFanu
  • But whether his mother's darkened mind ever forgave him it would be difficult to say.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Synonyms for darkened

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