Definition of blackened
:coated with a mixture of spices (such as garlic powder and cayenne pepper) and fried over extremely high heat
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Examples of blackened in a Sentence
the church's blackened ceiling is the result of centuries of candle smoke
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Fulfill your summer goth fantasy for less with Maneater, a blackened plum.
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Workers could be seen inspecting the blackened transformer Sunday.
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On a visit to the Wadi Hajar neighborhood of western Mosul in April, just a month after it was recaptured, shopkeepers were repainting their blackened storefronts even as gunfire and explosions erupted a few blocks away.
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Symbolic candles flicker and strands of yellow melted wax drip over blackened rocks.
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A pair of blue underwear and the remnants of a pair of blue jeans, as well as a .38-caliber bullet casing, were found inside the blackened store.
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Video images from the Kamuna camp in Idlib showed smoke billowing from rows of tattered and blackened tents as well as a pickup truck packed with wounded people moaning and crying.
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First Known Use of blackened
1979
blackened Synonyms
Synonyms
bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, black, dirty, cruddy, dingy, draggled, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smudged, smutty, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanlyAntonyms
clean, cleanly, immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, ultraclean, unsoiled, unstained, unsulliedRelated Words
contaminated, defiled, germy, impure, polluted, tainted; insanitary, uncleaned, unsanitary, unsterile, unsterilized, unwashed; greasy, gunky; chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, scruffy, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy; raunchy, scuzzy [slang], shabby, skanky [slang], sleazy, squalid; collied [chiefly British dialect], crocked [dialect], fuliginous, sootyNear Antonyms
clear, limpid, pure; cleaned, cleansed, combed, groomed, neat, ordered, orderly, tidy; bleached, purified, whitened; bright, flawless, perfect, shiny, sparkling, unspotted, untouched; taintless, unblemished, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, virgin, wholesomeBLACKENED Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of blackened for English Language Learners
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of food : coated with a mixture of hot spices and fried over very high heat
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