Darken

What do we mean by darken?

To make dark or darker. intransitive verb

To give a darker hue to. intransitive verb

To fill with sadness; make gloomy. intransitive verb

To render vague or uncertain; obscure. intransitive verb

To tarnish or stain. intransitive verb

To become dark or darker. intransitive verb

To grow dark or darker.

To grow less white or clear; assume a darker hue or appearance: as, white paper darkens with age.

To deprive of light; make dark or darker: as, to darken a room by closing the shutters.

To obscure or shut out the light of.

To render less white or clear; impart a darker hue to: as, exposure to the sun darkens the complexion.

To obscure or cloud the meaning or intelligence of; perplex; render vague or uncertain.

To render gloomy; sadden.

To deprive of vision; strike with blindness.

Hence To deprive of intellectual or spiritual light; sink in darkness or ignorance.

To sully; make foul; make less bright or lustrous.

To hide; conceal.

To grow or darker. intransitive verb

To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure. transitive verb

To make dark or darker by reducing light.

To become dark or darker (having less light).

To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).

To make dark or darker in colour.

To become dark or darker in colour.

To render gloomy, darker in mood.

To become gloomy, darker in mood.

To blind, impair the eyesight.

To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.

To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

Words that are spelled similarly to darken:
darken, harken, darker, darien, darkey, darren, darden, barken, darwen, darke, arken, darkon, daren, marken, danken, parken, daken, darked, varken.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word darken:
lighten, eyelashes, mascara, spore, tanning, spores, stipe, diffusion, odor, stain, coloration, ripe, skies, ultraviolet, dull, fade, mayer, sunlight, darker, maturity, fungus, skin, color, flesh, tips, lenses, colour, tan, pale, bark, equation, shadows, mature, oxide, shade, wizard, holocaust, hatch, exposure, sky, fin, eyes, leather, binary, dorsal, exposed, rays, coat, hair, purple, paint, gray, mud, lighter, dark, radiation, yellow, eggs, brown, cap, colored, surface, tone, colors, fruit, spots, considerably, pink, bright, image, experiment, black, smooth, warm, depending, stem, evil, faces, memory, print, wood, light, thick, contrast, lose, oak, reputation, door, adult, photography, normally, age, appear, laboratory, dry, effect, wine, paper, grow, heat.

Words that rhyme with darken:
harken, narcan, parkin, larkin, archean, barchan, arkin, garcon, markan, barkan, barken, larchen, harkin, sarkin, markin, marcon, marken, clarkin, arc in, arche in, ark in, ballpark in, barca in, bark in, barkin, barque in, benchmark in, birthmark in, bismarck in, charkha in, clark in, clarke in, dark in, denmark in, disembark in, embark in, hallmark in, hark in, landmark in, landmark inn, lark in, marc in, mark in, marke in, marque in, marque un, matriarch in, monarch in, parc in, park in, park inn, parka in, parke in, patriarch in, petrarca in, quark in, remark in, saarc in, sark in, shark in, skylark in, spark in, stark in, starke in, trademark in, watermark in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe darken:
latter, irish, miserable, blue, present, calm, shiny, twilight, greater, sun.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective darken:
room, ship, part, mode, gurry, night, amount, corner, skies, counsel, alley.

Consonant match to darken:
dar con, dark in, dark on.

Words that sound like darken:
darken, darkon, dargan, dorkin, tarkan, darking, dorgan, darren, darkened, darkens, dokken, docken, dark one, darkener, durkan, dorking, harken, hearken, dorian, durkin, doron, doren, dierking, deacon, darko, durian, darian, darien, darky, darkie, dicken, darkle, decon, darcie, derian, darion, daron, darshan, harkin, deccan, doiron, ducken, dickon, deren, duren, darco, darkey, darksome, darwen, daran, diren, daken, darton, durgan, decken, dogen, darvon, darga, dark moon, dart gun, deken, dieren, dark man, dacon, dark rum, darlan, durion, dark zone, dorin, dworkin, talkin, starken, tarran, tarka, hargan, targum, darwin, darlin, darkening, docking, darin, doreen, daren, doran, darrin, deakin, dorion, dorcas, deerskin, dakin, darkish, darvin, donkin, dogon, dorene, dakine, deer skin, daikin, daykin, dirking.