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• v  become dark or darker
  The sky darkened
• v  tarnish or stain
  a scandal that darkened the family's good name
• v  make dark or darker
  darken a room

• The metaphysics of the possibilities can flare and darken.
• To be honest, that hope began to darken as I thumbed through the production notes prior to a screening of Get Smart.
• An America where the gay bars darken their windows to hide ashamed patrons, and an America where straight people stand in line to get into gay clubs.

• lighten
• brighten

News & Articles

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• Will Home Prices Be Constrained by Stagnant Incomes?
  The extra cost of higher rates on home prices wouldn't darken the housing outlook except it is running up against puny growth in incomes.
  June 18, 2013 - Wall Street Journal Blogs

Quotes

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• Tom Tancredo in International Herald Tribune
  Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado recalled that White House aide Karl Rove had once told him "never darken the door of the White House."
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Interactive Investor
  This year, the year of your visit here, may reveal an opportunity for us and our neighbors, to attain peace. While many political clouds still darken the horizon, and the voices of incitement obscure the sound of peace, and much violence converged... Shimon Peres http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Peres&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF2kPtUa5OhC08gNdErEKR7OWjL2Q Ha'aretz http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084577.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE91PwoB5xFdMNngOesTN50ZD5A7w May 10, 2009 24910 33624 darken In such a crisis environment we cannot darken our future by bowing to the wishes of the IMF," Erdogan told a regional meeting of his ruling AK Party.