dusking

Verb

dusk (third-person singular simple present dusks, present participle dusking, simple past and past participle dusked)

1. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
   • I see the air benighted
     And all the dusking dales,
     And lamps in England lighted,1936, Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
2. (transitive) To make dusk.
   • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C....

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