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endarken

UK/ɪnˈdɑːkən/US/ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/

endarken verb: to render dark or darker.

Verb

endarken (third-person singular simple present endarkens, present participle endarkening, simple past and past participle endarkened)

  1. (literary, rare, transitive) To render dark or darker.
    • Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury
    • […] moral education cannot be […] purely enlightened and enlightening […] it cannot be simply a matter of teaching [people] to calculate the long term profit and the loss, while leaving […] desires to develop independently. It must involve an endarkened and endarkening component, by which [people]...
  2. (literary, transitive) To becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound.

Antonyms of endarken

Forms of endarken

third-person singular presentendarkens
present participleendarkening
past participleendarkened
pastendarkened

Origin of endarken

From en- + darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten.

Words formed from endarken

Questions about endarken

What does endarken mean?
Endarken means to render dark or darker.
What part of speech is endarken?
Endarken is a verb.
How do you pronounce endarken?
Endarken is pronounced /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/ (US).
What is the past tense of endarken?
The past tense of endarken is endarkened.

Words near endarken in the dictionary

  1. endarch
  2. endarchies
  3. endarchy
  4. endark
  5. endarked
  6. endarken
  7. endarkened
  8. endarkening
  9. endarkenment
  10. endarkens
  11. endarking

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