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darken - make dark or darker; "darken a room" |
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brighten,
lighten,
lighten up make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room"
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alter,
change,
modify remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
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embrown make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"
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murk make dark, dim, or gloomy
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dun make a dun color
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blind,
dim make dim by comparison or conceal
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dim make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver"
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bedim,
benight make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
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shade,
shade off,
shadow pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree; "the butterfly wings shade to yellow"
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cloud,
overcast make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"
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darken - become dark or darker; "The sky darkened" |
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lighten,
lighten up become lighter; "The room lightened up"
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change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
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dusk become dusk
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blacken out,
black out suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"
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cloud over,
cloud up,
overcloud become overcast; "the sky clouded over"
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darken - tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name" |
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defile,
maculate,
stain,
sully,
tarnish place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
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