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blackened

blackened adjective: darkened to the point of appearing black; as. Also the simple past and past participle of blacken.

Adjective

blackened (comparative more blackened, superlative most blackened)

  1. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as
    • [...] after journeying across pleasant agricultural countryside to Leicester and thence though the blackened and busy industrial area that stretches almost unbrokenly for over 100 miles from Trent through Rotherham and Leeds to Keighley, [...].1939 July, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 34
    • A witness quoted by The Times described "the blackened faces of firemen sitting outside the station in the cold, drinking tea from local sandwich shops in complete silence".2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 58, about the Moorgate tube crash
  2. Synonym of charred.
    Synonyms:
    charred
  3. (steel) Synonym of blued.
    Synonyms:
    blued

Also used as

blackened is also the simple past and past participle of blacken.

blackened meaning in Bengali and Punjabi

blackened in Bengali

কালো করে দেওয়া

blackened in Punjabi

ਕਾਲਾ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ

Examples of blackened in a sentence

  • After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
  • The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.
  • In front of him were great piles of blackened eugarie shells, relics of past aboriginal feasts.

All 25 example sentences with blackened

Synonyms of blackened

Antonyms

Forms of blackened

comparativemore blackened
superlativemost blackened

Origin of blackened

From Middle English blakend, blakind, blakkenid, blakenid, equivalent to blacken + -ed.

Words formed from blackened

Phrases with blackened

Questions about blackened

What does blackened mean?
Blackened means darkened to the point of appearing black; as.
What is blackened in Bengali?
Blackened in Bengali is কালো করে দেওয়া. See Blackened meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is blackened?
Blackened is an adjective.

Words near blackened in the dictionary

  1. blacked up
  2. blacked-up
  3. blackedy
  4. blackedy-black
  5. blacken
  6. blackened
  7. blackened crust
  8. blackened death metal
  9. blackenedness
  10. blackener
  11. blackeners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blackened (page history and authors); blackened (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blackened (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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