Definition of blacken

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Blacken (v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character..

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Smudge :: Smudge (v. t.) To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.
Smutch :: Smutch (v. t.) To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal..
Ink :: Ink (v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink..
Denigrate :: Denigrate (v. t.) Fig.: To blacken or sully; to defame.
Denigrate :: Denigrate (v. t.) To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
Blackwash :: Blackwash (n.) A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny..
Denigrator :: Denigrator (n.) One who, or that which, blackens..
Blackening :: Blackening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blacke.
Blackball :: Blackball (v. t.) To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking..
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance..
Blacken :: Blacken (v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character..
Besmut :: Besmut (v. t.) To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.
Ustulate :: Ustulate (a.) Blackened as if burned.
Gibbet :: Gibbet (v. t.) To expose to infamy; to blacken.
Blackener :: Blackener (n.) One who blackens.
Blek :: Blek (v. t.) To blacken; also, to defile..
Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..
Black :: Black (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
Earcockle :: Earcockle (n.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms..
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