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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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..
Blackening :: Blackening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blacke.
Besmut :: Besmut (v. t.) To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.
Smeeth :: Smeeth (v. t.) To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot.
Ustulate :: Ustulate (a.) Blackened as if burned.
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.
Blackwash :: Blackwash (n.) A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny..
Denigration :: Denigration (n.) Fig.: A blackening; defamation.
Blackener :: Blackener (n.) One who blackens.
Cloud :: Cloud (v. t.) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character.
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
Blackened :: Blackened (imp. & p. p.) of Blacke.
Blek :: Blek (v. t.) To blacken; also, to defile..
Smutch :: Smutch (v. t.) To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal..
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance..
Earcockle :: Earcockle (n.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms..
Blacken :: Blacken (v. t.) To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
Denigrate :: Denigrate (v. t.) To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.
Denigrator :: Denigrator (n.) One who, or that which, blackens..
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