blacken
b la kuhn
- v make or become black
The smoke blackened the ceiling
The ceiling blackened - v burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
The cook blackened the chicken breast
- He hopes to keep the wife and son he left behind from harsh treatment, gambling that Pyongyang will hesitate to further blacken its international image once his story is public.
- Before the smoke and soot from the burning coal and wood of the Industrial Revolution began to blacken the bark of England's trees, the predominant variety of peppered moth had .
- The anti-French protesters are not simply a noisy, hysterical minority; many Chinese are deeply angry about what they see as a global conspiracy to blacken their nation's good name .