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bedarkened

bedarkened is the simple past and past participle of bedarken.

Meaning of bedarken

Verb

bedarken (third-person singular simple present bedarkens, present participle bedarkening, simple past and past participle bedarkened)

  1. To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.
    • #*: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 6: Hero-Worship”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem)

Adjective

bedarkened

  1. Dim, dark, or obscure
    • I walked into the bedarkened hallway and tripped over something.

Questions about bedarkened

What does bedarkened mean?
Bedarkened means dim, dark, or obscure.
What is bedarkened the simple past and past participle of?
Bedarkened is the simple past and past participle of bedarken.
What part of speech is bedarkened?
Bedarkened is an adjective.

Words near bedarkened in the dictionary

  1. bedared
  2. bedares
  3. bedaring
  4. bedark
  5. bedarken
  6. bedarkened
  7. bedarkening
  8. bedarkens
  9. Bedas
  10. bedash
  11. bedashed

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