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BLACKENING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blackening mean?
• BLACKENING (noun)
The noun BLACKENING has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BLACKENING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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