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单词 darken
释义
darken
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WORD FAMILY
darken: darkened, darkening, darkens+/dark: dark-colored, darken, darker, darkest, darkish, darkly, darkness, darks, semidark/darkening: darkeningly, darkenings/darkness: darknesses/semidark: semidarkness
USAGE EXAMPLES
“New Year’s morning in Beijing, I thought I was blind,” said another, attaching a photo of a window completely darkened with grey haze.
The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017)
He settled each onto his workbench and rubbed beeswax into them until they darkened and turned shiny.
Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016)
The Toledo Art Museum is offering special after-hours tours where visitors to through its darkened galleries while carrying flashlights.
Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016)
1v make dark or darker
darken a room
Ant|Hypo|Hyper
brighten, lighten, lighten up
make lighter or brighter
embrown
cause to darken
murk
make dark, dim, or gloomy
dun
make a dun color
blind, dim
make dim by comparison or conceal
dim
make dim or lusterless
bedim, benight
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
shade, shade off, shadow
cast a shadow over
cloud, overcast
make overcast or cloudy
fog up
get foggy
haze
become hazy, dull, or cloudy
alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
2v tarnish or stain
a scandal that darkened the family's good name
Hyper
defile, maculate, stain, sully, tarnish
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
3v become dark or darker
The sky darkened
Ant|Hypo|Hyper
lighten, lighten up
become lighter
dusk
become dusk
black out, blacken out
darken completely
cloud over, cloud up, overcloud
become covered with clouds
change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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