darken

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verb

1. become dark or darker (Freq. 4)
- The sky darkened
• Ant:
lighten
• Derivationally related forms:
darkening
• Hypernyms:
change
• Hyponyms:
dusk, black out, blacken out, overcloud, cloud over, cloud up
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
2. tarnish or stain
- a scandal that darkened the family's good name
• Hypernyms:
tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
3. make dark or darker
- darken a room
• Ant:
brighten
• Derivationally related forms:
darkening
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Hyponyms:
embrown, murk, dun, blind, dim,
dim, bedim, shadow, shade, shade off,
overcast, cloud
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  brighten, lighten up, lighten