1 to make sth black; to become black:
[VN] Their faces were blackened with soot. * Smoke had blackened the walls. * rows of blackened teeth [also V]
2 [VN] ~ sb's name / reputation / character to say unpleasant things that give people a bad opinion of sb:
He accused the newspaper of trying to blacken his name.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for blacken is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is blacken a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, blacken is tagged as verb.
Does blacken appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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