Blackening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLACKENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make or become black or dark, especially as a result of burning, decay, or bruising
• dye or colour (the face or hair) black for camouflage or cosmetic effect
• damage or destroy (someone's reputation) by speaking badly of them
NOUN:
• the act of making black
• changing to a darker color
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make black

Words related to BLACKENING

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Words that contain BLACKENING

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How to use BLACKENING in a sentence

• Still more remarkable, on turning to the upper window, was the rapidly blackening aspect of the sky.
• A shower of soot fell into the grate, blackening his hand.
• It was a cloud which encompassed them, suddenly blackening down.
• Every few seconds, Bedient glanced at the Captain, and as often followed his gaze into the churning, blackening North.
• See what a number of them have alighted on yonder ploughed field, almost blackening it over.
• A little higher a fringe of broom, the blossom gone, the pods blackening and shooting their seeds in the sun, marked the line of the virgin wilderness.
• The clouds are blackening, the storms threatening, 29.
• The extent to which a blackening takes place may be regarded as approximately proportionate to the amount of organic matter present.
• But now suppose we find that we cannot produce the same degree of blackening with this number of rays applied in the laboratory.
• It was a fresh and bright morning of early autumn, the sheaves were on the acres, and the grapes were blackening to the vintage, and the beasts and birds at least were merry.
• Also Tchin-King saw that the tongues of that fire were licking human bones, and that skulls of men lay blackening among the ashes.
• The blackening waters of the lake before our window seemed to anticipate the coming darkness.
• The horrid story of the bloody Colonel Kirk is considered as one of those political forgeries to serve the purpose of blackening a zealous partisan.
• By way of personal adornment, few practices are of more ancient origin than that of painting the face, dyeing the hair, and blackening the eyebrows and eyelashes.
• Then he pulled the trigger, and a bullet went straight into the right eye, blackening the skin.
• On being dug up it was found that the potato was rapidly blackening and melting away.
• Even when the weapon is fired quite close there may be no blackening of the skin, and the hand is not always blackened in cases of suicide.
• Its coming silenced them and for a space they watched the headlands of the solemn landscape blackening against the sky, and the river breaking into silvery disquiet.
• Then it throbbed to the beat of her hands and the blackening waves went away.
• The storm squall was already tearing across from the western shore, blackening the water ahead of it and picking up a small tidal wave as it came.
• Western clouds were blackening and his little cousin was pulling the pig into the cabin as a man puts other sort of treasure out of danger into a safe.
• The Thames nigger is generally a cockney covered with blackening, which only alters his skin and does not change his accent.
• They were good gray eyes with popping whites now, because of a trick of blackening the lids.
• The blackening dampness turned the cold into a thing, and laid frozen shudders on us.
• And just then I saw, under the trickling morning, some half-open but still tepid dead that steamed, as if they were the blackening rubbish-heap of a village.
• Hurrying to the nearest opening, we saw the immense flight of pigeons blackening the sky overhead.
• You will vex them less by blackening an eye, than by lightening their purses of a penny.
• Blackening of the teeth is a semi-magical procedure.
• How could human lungs breathe the midnight of blackening walls? The place was hot with the hell of confinement.

Similar words containing BLACKEN without suffix ing

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