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• n  changing to a darker color
• v  make or become black
• v  burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

• The enlisted military is almost one-quarter black; police forces are blackening in large urban areas.
• These things are blackening our country, blackening all our hearts.
• Even when the gas chambers are fired up, smoke blackening the sky and stench filling their nostrils, they insist the camp is just burning some old clothes.

• darkening
• blacken
• melanize
• melanise
• nigrify
• black
• char
• sear
• scorch

• whiten

News & Articles

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• News Summary: Thai oil spill spreads
  MAJOR MESS: Workers used buckets to scoop up globs of crude oil blackening the waters of a tourist island in Thailand's eastern sea, three days after oil leaked from a nearby pipeline. SPOTTED TOO LATE: ...
  July 30, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Thai oil spill spreads to new bay on resort island
  Workers in white suits used buckets to scoop up globs of crude oil blackening the once white sands and emerald waters of a tourist island in Thailand's eastern sea on Tuesday, as the oil slick continued ...
  July 30, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Black waves of oil washing onto Thai resort beach
  Workers in white suits used buckets to scoop up globs of crude oil blackening the once white sands and emerald waters of a tourist island in Thailand's eastern sea on Tuesday, three days after the oil ...
  July 30, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Paul Prudhomme in Seattle Times
  My advice to people at home is bronzing rather that blackening,says Chef Paul Prudhomme. "This avoids the smoke and the risk of handling a red-hot skillet while still achieving an excellent result."
• Donald Findlay in Glasgow Daily Record
  I am not seeking sympathy from anyone. But it is a little bit too much to expect me to forget and forgive something that is happening now as a result of Anwar's plotting. Anwar has succeeded in blackening my name in the United States and Europe of... Mahathir Mohamad http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathir_bin_Mohamad&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHRK8vPvTA88xPSEps2LApmLRtUaA Malaysia Star http://www.google.com/url?q=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp%3Ffile%3D/2008/7/5/nation/20080705195738%26sec%3Dnation&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGR-LaawJai3YrppEheKQG2BZTbyQ Jul 5, 2008 10455 14702 blackening Mr Findlay accused the prosecution at the trial of skilfully blackening Mitchell's name".