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    blacken


    blackened


    blackening


    blackens


    1. It could blacken the atmosphere so nothing could grow for years


    2. What did I do?" He didn't answer, instead he roared up the blacken highway as if the truck knew where it was going by its self


    3. "I refuse to fail," he stated before turning away to once more watch the roots of the One Tree blacken


    4. We had rubbed burnt cork into our skin to blacken it and stop the whiteness showing up in the dark and we had balaclavas on our heads


    5. Her words troubled him, and his eyes flickered back to their normal color, only to blacken over in a flash


    6. The heat from the beam was so intense that Jivel simple brushed against it and the flesh on her shoulder was scorched to a blacken crisp


    7. He suddenly started to blacken both of his upper front teeth, with a fitted plastic cap


    8. Surely, he will blacken his own name and will not be able to face other men…’ was the thought going through her mind


    9. as he watched the meat crumple and blacken, and some became orange meat,


    10. It is a fairytale lie, a fantasy bullshit of someone getting rich instantly and easily… and not being corrupted by it at all: it is packed with lies and brainwashing deceptions and untruths…, in order to whitewash the new generation of legally greedy humans: Stevenson had to blacken the evil of the old generation of illegally greedy humans

    11. As long as they can commit more evil: they are allowed to live because the undead love to use living pawns to worsen and blacken their souls until they die and have the shock of their undead lives when the laughing insane filth greet them and welcome them! And egg them on to commit more evil as undead filth instead of living-undead filth


    12. Then vile gossip and lies and rumors were invented and spread about him to blacken his name so she would reject all of his advances and marry that Russian ass instead


    13. Rabbi Marks says: 'The upshot is that the Jewish doctors labored rather to adorn the future of the good than to blacken the destiny of the wicked


    14. Instead he allowed the bitterness to blacken every recess of his pained heart


    15. "Yes, which made fools laugh, which caused the minister to have a sleepless night, which has caused the minister's secretaries to blacken several sheets of paper, but which has cost me 700,000 francs


    16. “Wave back that woman! Cast off this child! All shall be well! Do not blacken your fame, and perish in dishonor! I can yet save you! Would you bring infamy on your sacred profession?”


    17. But the consequence is, that the whole profession in Middlemarch have set themselves tooth and nail against the Hospital, and not only refuse to cooperate themselves, but try to blacken the whole affair and hinder subscriptions


    18. "They all try to blacken him before me; but I will care for no pain, if he is not to blame


    19. Perhaps Kate herself would arrive to blacken my Good Fortune; for certainly the Chambermaid’s Gossip about her was not to be accounted free of Errors


    20. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to blacken all below

    21. Blacken beneath the eyes with charcoal to reduce glare further


    22. But it was simply that I was bound to blacken you before her


    23. Why? Because, as I have said, I required her to consent to leave you, and this consent was so difficult to tear from her! Short-sighted man that you are! If she had not loved you, why should I have required so to blacken your character? Why should I have been obliged to take this extreme step? Oh! you don't know all! I was forced to use my fullest maternal authority in order to erase you from her heart; and with all my influence and skill I only succeeded in erasing your dear image superficially and partially! If you saw and heard all just now, it cannot have escaped you that Zina did not once, by either word or gesture, encourage or confirm my words to the prince? Throughout the whole scene she said not one word


    24. One of his listeners observed that it was no good his "pretending"; that he had eaten and drunk and almost slept at Yulia Mihailovna's, yet now he was the first to blacken her character, and that this was by no means such a fine thing to do as he supposed


    25. That person, who is very well known to you and who has taken the place of a friend to me, whose name I will refrain from mentioning (because I do not wish unnecessarily to blacken the reputation of a perfectly innocent man), lodges with us at Karolina Ivanovna’s, in the room in which, when you were among us, the infantry officer from Tambov used to be


    26. Such has been the fact in many places on our frontier since the battle of Tippecanoe; and such was the melancholy fact near the Ohio river, in Indiana, when upwards of twenty persons were horribly murdered in cold blood, without the opportunity of resistance; the most of these unfortunate victims were women and children, whose heads were roasted by the fire, and in this cruel mode tortured to death, and under circumstances which would blacken and dye with deeper disgrace the most infamous and abandoned set of beings on earth


    27. Jefferson also concurred at a period most auspicious to fair inquiry and dispassionate judgment; it was before the tempest of party arose, to obscure the great luminary of truth and blacken the political horizon


    1. The only part that still looks human is the blackened shape of a person


    2. Yet again Marwan Tayeh, this briefly arcing flare, fell back to earth, spent and blackened


    3. As about my “friends”, after half an hour or so I found them observing the blackened tub – Helen with a surly face, as usual, Vlassis lost in space, as always


    4. 'Did you see the blackened tree stumps on your way up the mountain?'


    5. normal, the flames dancing steadily and the blackened ends of the


    6. Returning to the living room with tray in hand, she discovered that Jim had the blackened logs a blaze, in the fireplace


    7. In true Wescarpian feasting tradition the fangs and claws were still on, but blackened by the fire


    8. For as far as X’ander could see, the earth was dead, a blackened pit of ash


    9. He limped onward; his hands shriveled, his bald head covered in a spider web of blackened veins


    10. Out of nowhere the blackened staff appeared and smacked against his wrist -- the only wrist he had left

    11. Spinning like a windmill in a hurricane, he launched the blade at his opponent, who was stoically still, his hands coiled around his blackened staff as he awaited its arrival


    12. only to be met with a similar spinning wheel; this one, a whirlwind of blackened wood


    13. At the corners of their lips he saw blackened stains, a reminder of their long night of chopa use


    14. Below his hand, the staff was blackened at the center, charred as though burnt by fire


    15. The northern quarter, having been decimated by the Destroyer, continued to lie in ruins for the general population refused to near the blackened crater where the city's greatest monuments once stood


    16. It was day, but in the shade of the One Tree there was no sun, only an endless blackened trunk that rose to the sky


    17. Beyond the pile of rubble and fractured wall, smoke seeped from the blackened earth, rising from the ashes of evergreens and oaks


    18. With only a ten inch dagger and Solo Ki's blackened branch of wood, there was little they could do to gain access into the buildings' interiors


    19. The Reapers had quickly learned to avoid the elf and his blackened staff focusing instead on the weaker sections of their ring -- which was of course its human half


    20. The Archenon remained, a blackened pillar standing in a wasteland of dust

    21. She fell to the blackened earth, her long fingers sinking into the blood drenched soil


    22. Already his veins had blackened and swelled to near bursting with the infection


    23. He once wondered if he would ever near the blackened trunk, now he knew he was close, for the Dead Tree had in fact replaced the skyline


    24. His body was blackened with soot


    25. Even so, with his hands split open and blackened, Adros didn’t release his grip on the King’s Wood – not even when the fires of the Magi were extinguished altogether


    26. With each step he took, the plants at his feet blackened and decayed


    27. All she could see were the familiar blackened beams and crumbling interior of the former home


    28. When the hares were blackened on the outside, he lifted the spit and began to eat


    29. Little more than brittle, blackened bones remained in some cases


    30. Vicious hatred invaded and blackened his fire

    31. The inside of the rectangle was blackened and the fire had gone to the river bank


    32. He drew the palm sized gun and walked cautiously towards the blackened pile


    33. There was a defined break in the oncoming blackened sky, nighttime darkness and an oncoming deep blackness of a storm


    34. None of the rungs had survived, all that was left were some of the support bars that protruded from the blackened walls


    35. The walls, floor and ceiling were blackened and there was still some smoke hanging in the air


    36. The door to the baggage store was also badly scorched and split, the thin metal blackened and deformed due to the heat


    37. His face: blackened with a fixed look of horror


    38. His face, eyes still open, and upper body had been blackened by the explosion


    39. The bottom half of the structure was blackened, but it seemed that the entire section had landed intact


    40. As we arrived we could see that the rest of the lads were already there we were dressed in jumpers and trousers and our boots were dulled we had on balaclavas and had blackened our faces

    41. I could see his teeth white in his blackened face as he smiled saying


    42. There was blood on his shirt and gore from his lost arm and the earth where his stumps lay was soaked in blood I looked at his face which was also blackened and scorched but which otherwise wasn’t so bad


    43. Beneath her perfect body was a corrupted soul and a blackened heart


    44. Physiogonomy , Facial features, especially when blackened and blued by the ministrations of an out-of-control federal government


    45. For that he had spent 20 years in jail and we were indeed lucky that the TRC only blackened our name forever, for we served evil and became contaminated in the process


    46. They remembered the blackened wreck in Havana Harbour, and the sailor comrades sleeping in that foetid slough; they thought also of the women and children crying aloud for deliverance from starvation and despair, and of the ragged patriots fighting for liberty as their own fathers had fought


    47. The doctors fought for two hours but in the end Karen had died, her skin a mass of red welts and blackened patches from the box jellyfish stings


    48. The blackened figure staggered forward on unsteady legs


    49. Grey reached over, picking up one of the short, blackened sticks


    50. He noted what looked like a small clump of birch-bark held down under a rock, and a blackened coffee pot













































    1. Alexis turned and pointed to the blackening sky in the west, breathless he screamed, 'Did you hear that boss? Did you hear the snorting of her holy horses? She washes the flecks of sweat from their mouths as they champ the bit and cleans the clotted foam


    2. After one last look at the blackening hole above, he went on for another couple of drops


    3. Round and round he led the males, jabbing at the lifeless carcass, darkening the tips of each stick with the blackening gore that oozed slowly from each new entrance


    4. The heat behind her eyes pounded an uneasy rhythm into her head as she grabbed his hand, skin blackening with the emeralds’ flame, and covered it with the snow


    5. Before the thick smoke had forced the crowd of Norsemen to leave the building, the books burst into swirling flames and the flames reached up to Haki, soon blackening the bare skin and making a sizzling noise that Venn now remembered with joy


    6. The winds had also increased, and together with the blackening


    7. You are phoenix in the fumes, you breathe napalm, blue flame growing, the skies blackening, native drum chant


    8. It might have been an embodied flame moving with reason and purpose through the blackening woods


    9. Looking over his shoulder at the blood stained paperwork sprawled across the desk, Grailem can see that most of the information is obliterated by thick blackening blood


    10. For a moment, Mitchell could only stare at his blackening neck and take in the totality of a double murder scene; one that took place in the middle of a gorgeous green rainforest

    11. He then punched him in both eyes, blackening them heavily


    12. Even with her eyes red and the blackening from her lashes streaked down her face, she still looked beautiful


    13. The movie whitewashed hundreds of years of the blackening of England


    14. Hundreds of years of this blackening horror were wiped out of English textbooks and history books


    15. Blackening your lungs with black tar, blackening your stomach with black cocoa, and black sugar water


    16. "Don't speak like that to her!" said d'Urberville, his face blackening


    17. I knew, by now, the Danger we were in, the angry Look of the Seas, the blackening Skies, the sudden Furies of the Winds, but I abandon’d my Fears to the Pow’r of the Goddess, telling myself that if I lost Belinda, my Life should be worth nothing to me, whereas if I found her, I should have nought to fear from the Fates as long as I might live


    18. Turning, he saw the largest section of the cabin lying on its back, consumed in a huge, blackening ball of fire


    19. Madeleine, in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely disappeared; respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced at M


    20. He imagined her face blackening, wrinkling, twisting into knots of agedness

    21. “But what is it all about? Tell me, for Heaven’s sake! Cannot you understand how nearly it touches me? Why are they blackening Evgenie Pavlovitch’s reputation?”


    1. But ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it


    2. Has any capitalist said he would venture out in the present tempest which blackens the ocean? No, sir, they are your dashing merchants; speculators, who, having nothing to lose and every thing to gain, would launch headlong on the ocean, regardless of consequences


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    Synonyms for "blacken"

    black blacken melanise melanize char scorch sear cloud over shadow shade eclipse obscure denigrate darken defame calumniate besmirch sully attack

    "blacken" definitions

    make or become black


    burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color