darkening
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈdɑrkənɪŋ/
:
oscurecimiento
- The darkening of the sky signaled that a storm was approaching.
Because wrath that is nursed in the heart is causing darkening or darkness in our minds.
- Because wrath that is nursed in the heart is causing darkening or darkness in our minds.
- The circuits for detecting darkening are much more robust and much more numerous than are the circuits for brightness.
Examples
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A heron squawks, a frog bewhomps, and fireflies light up beneath darkening sycamores.
Fiction book (1996) -
The streets outside began to hiss with rain, lightning flashed in the darkening rooms, and thunder rattled the windowpanes.
Fiction book (2000) -
But what she saw directly across the darkening street from where she stood made her next move clear.
Fiction book (1992) -
My arms loaded with wood, I pause to look out over the darkening lake.
Academic text (1990) -
The moon seemed to be sitting directly upon it, in the darkening, bleeding twilight.
Fiction book (1993) -
Alden had sat in the darkening alley for a time, waiting for them to come out.
Fiction book (1992) -
The hints of the darkening hour descend in the kitchen, focusing her, calming her.
Fiction book (2001) -
Ike sensed a sudden darkening and figured that the cauliflower clouds had thickened to cover the sun.
Fiction book (2001) -
Jax wheeled Mistrider around and took off, disappearing into the mist and the darkening night.
Fiction book (1999) -
The lone sailboat bounced across the choppy water, racing for the darkening, pine-covered shore more than a mile away.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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4.4
A change in color that makes something look faded or stained
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1.0
A deep, strong color often used in cloth or paint
1
4.4
A change that makes metal, food or walls turn black
1
3.7
A process in which something becomes a different color
A change that makes something dark in color
Darkening of skin or an insect shell when it gets more pigment
A low level of light, like at sunset
Antonyms
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Darkening comes from the simple word dark meaning 'not light' plus the ending -en meaning 'make' and -ing meaning 'process', so it names the process or result of becoming darker or less bright.