Definition of Blackening

1. Noun. Changing to a darker color.

Exact synonyms: Darkening
Generic synonyms: Change Of Color
Specialized synonyms: Obfuscation
Derivative terms: Darken, Darken

Definition of Blackening

1. Verb. (present participle of blacken) ¹

2. Noun. The act of turning black in colour; a black stain or mark. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blackening

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackening

blackdamp
blackdamps
blacke-saint
blacke sanctus
blacke santis
blacke santus
blacke saunts
blacked
blacken
blacken out
blackened
blackener
blackeners
blackenest
blackeneth
blackening
blackenings
blackens
blacker
blackest
blackey
blackeye
blackeyed
blackeyes
blackeys
blackface
blackfaces
blackfeet
blackfella
blackfellas

Literary usage of Blackening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"UTILITY OF Blackening MIXTURES. 39. In order to peel any part or the whole of a casting formed in a body of dry sand, the sand must be blackened when the ..."

2. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1910)
"EXPERIMENT 9-B. —Influence of the Blackening of the Bulb on ... To show the student the blackening effect, it may be obtained in a few minutes by subjecting ..."

3. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"In all these diseases the colour is usually altered, lied wines especially become brownish, turbid, and even colourless. Blackening of ..."

4. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1905)
"... upon the loose rounded pebbles which strew the surface of the mesas along the Colorado river. These fragmentary rocks partake of the general blackening. ..."

5. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"THE Blackening OF THE PATIENT. At noon of the third day the body of the patient is painted black. ..."

6. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1888)
"... pale and blackening ; marginate. The two genera here brought together suggest now ... more or less limited, or otherwise conditioned, by the blackening ..."

7. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... levelling all it falls upon, where it lies with its blackening leaves above the crushed underwood like some huge mammoth that has perished. ..."

8. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"UTILITY OF Blackening MIXTURES. 39. In order to peel any part or the whole of a casting formed in a body of dry sand, the sand must be blackened when the ..."

9. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1910)
"EXPERIMENT 9-B. —Influence of the Blackening of the Bulb on ... To show the student the blackening effect, it may be obtained in a few minutes by subjecting ..."

10. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"In all these diseases the colour is usually altered, lied wines especially become brownish, turbid, and even colourless. Blackening of ..."

11. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1905)
"... upon the loose rounded pebbles which strew the surface of the mesas along the Colorado river. These fragmentary rocks partake of the general blackening. ..."

12. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"THE Blackening OF THE PATIENT. At noon of the third day the body of the patient is painted black. ..."

13. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1888)
"... pale and blackening ; marginate. The two genera here brought together suggest now ... more or less limited, or otherwise conditioned, by the blackening ..."

14. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... levelling all it falls upon, where it lies with its blackening leaves above the crushed underwood like some huge mammoth that has perished. ..."

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