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bedarkening

bedarkening is the present participle and gerund 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)

Questions about bedarkening

What is bedarkening the present participle and gerund of?
Bedarkening is the present participle and gerund of bedarken.

Words near bedarkening in the dictionary

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

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