Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blacken
Participle: blackened
Gerund: blackening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blacken |
| you | blacken |
| he;she;it | blackens |
| we | blacken |
| you | blacken |
| they | blacken |
Perfect
| I | have blackened |
| you | have blackened |
| he;she;it | has blackened |
| we | have blackened |
| you | have blackened |
| they | have blackened |
Past
| I | blackened |
| you | blackened |
| he;she;it | blackened |
| we | blackened |
| you | blackened |
| they | blackened |
Pluperfect
| I | had blackened |
| you | had blackened |
| he;she;it | had blackened |
| we | had blackened |
| you | had blackened |
| they | had blackened |
Future
| I | will blacken |
| you | will blacken |
| he;she;it | will blacken |
| we | will blacken |
| you | will blacken |
| they | will blacken |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blackened |
| you | will have blackened |
| he;she;it | will have blackened |
| we | will have blackened |
| you | will have blackened |
| they | will have blackened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blacken |
| you | blacken |
| he;she;it | blacken |
| we | blacken |
| you | blacken |
| they | blacken |
Perfect
| I | have blackened |
| you | have blackened |
| he;she;it | have blackened |
| we | have blackened |
| you | have blackened |
| they | have blackened |
Imperfect
| I | blackened |
| you | blackened |
| he;she;it | blackened |
| we | blackened |
| you | blackened |
| they | blackened |
Pluperfect
| I | had blackened |
| you | had blackened |
| he;she;it | had blackened |
| we | had blackened |
| you | had blackened |
| they | had blackened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blacken |
| you | would blacken |
| he;she;it | would blacken |
| we | would blacken |
| you | would blacken |
| they | would blacken |
Perfect
| I | would have blackened |
| you | would have blackened |
| he;she;it | would have blackened |
| we | would have blackened |
| you | would have blackened |
| they | would have blackened |
Imperative
| you | blacken |
| we | Let's blacken |
| you | blacken |
Verbs conjugated like 'blacken'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blacken'
blanken,
blicken,
slacken,
barken,
black,
blackleg,
blake,
blanket,
blazen,
bleaken,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- make black
- black, denigrate
- make dirty
- dirty, soil
- defame
- defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish
- to make physically dirty
- assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, bedizen, befile, befoul, begrime, beray, besully, bewray, blot, blur, contaminate, darken, denigrate, dirty, drag through the mud, dull, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, pollute, sling mud, slotter, slur, smutch, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, taint, tarnish, uggle
- slander
- denigrate, darken, defame, calumniate, besmirch, sully, attack, vilify
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black + -en (verbal suffix).
Sample Sentences
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[...] tolling of great bells, and crashing of wheels, and shouting in the distance ? A fire. And what that deep red light in the opposite direction? Another fire. And what these charred and blackened walls we stand before ? A dwelling where a fire has been. It was more than hinted, in an official report, not long ago, that some of these conflagrations were not wholly accidental, and that [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] by other cars; in which, in the course of the next hour or so, we crossed by wooden bridges, each a mile in length, two creeks, called respectively Great and Little Gunpowder. The water in both was blackened with flights of canvas-backed ducks, which are most delicious eating, and abound hereabouts at that season of the year.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] after breakfast, we devoted to riding through the town, which is regular and cheerful: the streets being laid out at right angles, and planted with young trees. The buildings are smoky and blackened, from the use of bituminous coal, but an Englishman is well used to that appearance, and indisposed to quarrel with it. There did not appear to be much business stirring; and some unfinished [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)