darkenest

Verb

darken (third-person singular simple present darkens, present participle darkening, simple past and past participle darkened)

1. (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
   • […] they [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 10:15

   Synonyms:

   bedark, blacken, endark, swarten

2. (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
   • […] the owl and the bat flew round the darkening trees:1783, William Blake, “The Couch of Death”, in Richard Herne Shepherd, editor, Poetical Sketches, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, published 1868, page 84

   Synonyms:

   blacken, mirken, swarten

3. (impersonal) To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
   • Well, I must go in now; and you too: it darkens.1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XV, in Jane Eyre. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 289

   Synonyms:

   dusk

4. (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
   • She puts on lipstick and darkens her eyebrows, which are now very scanty […]2009, Alice Munro, “Free Radicals”, in Too Much Happiness, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 118
5. (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
   • The lovely hair had lost its rose-gold glimmer, and had darkened to rose-brown […]1979, Mary Stewart, The Last Enchantment, New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 4, Chapter 4, p. 405

   Synonyms:

   darkle

6. (transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
   • With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not
     The mirth o’ the feast.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

   Synonyms:

   begloom, bring down, dispirit, aggrieve, attrist, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, come down on

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