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bedarkens

bedarkens is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bedarkens

What is bedarkens the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bedarkens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bedarken.

Words near bedarkens in the dictionary

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

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