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BLACKENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blackening mean? 

BLACKENING (noun)
  The noun BLACKENING has 1 sense:

1. changing to a darker colorplay

  Familiarity information: BLACKENING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACKENING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Changing to a darker color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

blackening; darkening

Hypernyms ("blackening" is a kind of...):

change of color (an act that changes the light that something reflects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blackening"):

obfuscation (darkening or obscuring the sight of something)


 Context examples 


There was no powder-blackening on the clothes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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