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verb

past tense of blacken
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as in faded
to grow dark the auditorium blackened suddenly, and a spotlighted performer appeared alone on stage

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Recent Examples of blackened
Adjective
His blackened execution pyre stands in a barren field, a leitmotif driven like a stake through the heart of the film. Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021 Firefighters remained in one untouched rectangular slice of land in Meyers Wednesday morning, hosing down blackened earth in backyards, a sign of just how close the flames got to homes. Sarah Ravani, Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Sep. 2021 Near the towns of Phillips, Twin Bridges and Strawberry, cracks of blue sky and sunshine illuminated scorched terrain and skeletal bare tree branches, but also blue jays and chipmunks scampering over blackened tree roots and fallen rocks. Lauren Hepler, Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021 Using gloved hands, scrape off all of the blackened exteriors and slice into small pieces. Joanne Rosa, ABC News, 21 June 2021 See All Example Sentences for blackened
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blackened
Adjective
  • Troubled Factories: The medications came mostly from plants in India where inspectors found contaminated drugs, filthy labs and falsified records.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 17 June 2025
  • The next year, his fame reached a new echelon after the release of Pumping Iron, a docudrama that highlighted Schwarzenegger's strange charisma and filthy sense of humor.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 June 2025
Verb
  • In the crowded parish hall, a sea of limbs and phones and flashes of light obscured the painting.
    James Factora, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, all these great locations and details are obscured constantly, muddled into blurry backgrounds.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This record is a gentle correction for listeners who think of blues as either dusty or loud.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
  • Workers in overalls walk down dusty streets that turn into dusty tracks before petering out to nowhere.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • He is described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with black hair and brown eyes and weighing 190 pounds.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • The black coffee and ablutions came promptly at 3: 30 a.m. each morning, followed by a toe-curling breakfast.
    Nash Buckingham, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Some former generals involved in martial law decades ago had ended up in prison and been publicly disgraced.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
  • That until such monsters and secret policemen and fantasists of apartheid, are as abandoned and disgraced as the National Socialists, there will be war.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The initial impression of prestige clouded critical considerations like fit, costs and expertise needed to address your challenges.
    Shanna Apitz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • From my own personal trauma and experiences hearing false accusations about him all the time clouded my judgement and got the best of me.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Furthermore, stormy weather in Stockholm meant the muddy pitch would favour the hosts’ more pragmatic style.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Earlier pressings of this record sounded muddy and boxed in, but here, the piano sparkles and the guitar cuts.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • Finally, never reuse dirty water as toddlers and pets might accidentally swallow it.
    Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2025
  • To properly load a dishwasher for maximum cleaning power, place dishes in the dishwasher with the dirty side facing the jets, with taller items around the outside.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 25 June 2025

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“Blackened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blackened. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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