Results for blacken

Definitions of blacken:

part of speech: verb transitive

To make black; to soil; to speak evil of, as of the character or reputation.

part of speech: verb

To make black; to soil; to defame.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To grow black or dark.

part of speech: verb transitive

To make black: to defame.

Usage examples for blacken:

• If Eve Nolan hadn't been puttering with some of her trick films at the time- she and Walt Harris had the so- called night shift- and seen them blacken we'd have been dead before they discovered it. "Let'em Breathe Space", Lester del Rey

• If you cannot defeat a man in fair fight, the next best thing is to blacken his character. "The Case of Richard Meynell", Mrs. Humphrey Ward

• But when my eyes saw my own land blacken and shrivel like a green leaf in the fire, and when with my own eyes I saw the best, the noblest, the crown of my country's chivalry fall rolling in the mud of Morsbronn under the feet of Prussia, every drop of blood in my body was French- hot and red and French! "The Maids of Paradise", Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers