darkening
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3.4
Becoming less light as evening comes or clouds gather
- adjective
- /ˈdɑrkənɪŋ/
:
oscureciendo
- The room felt more intimate as the darkening shadows crept in with the evening light.
Examples
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As the sun set, the sky began its darkening transformation into shades of purple and blue.
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The darkening clouds signaled that a storm was approaching.
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And honestly, it's like a room darkening canvas.
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It was the same purple as her dress, but it was inexorably darkening, and her dress was not.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
to darken
vsdarkening
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3.3
Make or become less bright, for example a room
is the ongoing process of becoming less bright over time
to blacken
vsdarkening
16
3.4
To make something dark or to become dark, for example walls after a fire
is a milder change to less bright light, not to almost no light
to cloud over
vsdarkening
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3.4
The sky becomes covered with clouds and looks less bright
is general becoming less bright for any reason, not only sky covering
Antonyms
How Dark
Surface Forms
darkening positive
Morphology
Etymology
Darkening as an adjective is made from dark ('not light') with -en ('make') and -ing ('becoming'), so it describes something that is getting darker as light fades or clouds gather.