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BLACKENED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
Example:
a face black with fury
Synonyms:
black; blackened
Classified under:
Similar:
colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Darkened by smoke
Example:
blackened rafters
Classified under:
Similar:
smoky (marked by or emitting or filled with smoke)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb blacken
Context examples:
Meg cheerfully blackened and burned her white hands cooking delicate messes for 'the dear', while Amy, a loyal slave of the ring, celebrated her return by giving away as many of her treasures as she could prevail on her sisters to accept.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When I look back at my parents as they were in those days, it is at that very moment that I can picture them most clearly: her sweet face with the wet shining upon her cheeks, and his blue eyes upturned to the smoke-blackened ceiling.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The printed side had been blackened with wood ash, which already began to come off and soil my fingers; on the blank side had been written with the same material the one word “Depposed.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
When I looked down at the trampers whom we passed, and saw that well-remembered style of face turned up, I felt as if the tinker's blackened hand were in the bosom of my shirt again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That we were justified in doing so was shown upon the third day, when Challenger admitted that he recognized several landmarks of his former journey, and in one spot we actually came upon four fire-blackened stones, which must have marked a camping-place.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In a very few minutes they were in full flight for their brushwood homes, leaving the morning sun to rise upon a blackened and blood-stained ruin, where it had left the night before the magnificent castle of the Seneschal of Auvergne.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then, as a second lieutenant, he was in one of those grim three-deckers with powder-blackened hulls and crimson scupper-holes, their spare cables tied round their keels and over their bulwarks to hold them together, which carried the news into the Bay of Naples.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Blackened rocks and mounds of lava I had already seen everywhere peeping out from amid the luxuriant vegetation which draped them, but this asphalt pool in the jungle was the first sign that we had of actual existing activity on the slopes of the ancient crater.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
