Blacken

Pronunciation




Verb

 * 1) To make black.
 * 2) To make dirty.
 * 3) To defame or sully.
 * Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. &mdash; Napoleon Bonaparte
 * 1) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
 * 2) To become black.
 * The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.

Synonyms

 * (make black): black, denigrate
 * (make dirty): dirty, soil
 * (defame): defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish

Thesaurus
abuse, asperse, attaint, bark at, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, bedim, begloom, begrime, berate, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, betongue, black, black out, blackwash, block the light, blot, blot out, blotch, blow upon, blur, brand, brown, call names, cast a shadow, cast aspersions on, censure, charcoal, cloud, cloud over, cork, darken, darken over, daub, defame, defile, denigrate, dim, dim out, dinge, dirty, disapprove, discolor, discredit, disparage, ebonize, eclipse, encloud, encompass with shadow, engage in personalities, execrate, expose, expose to infamy, fulminate against, gibbet, gloom, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, ink, jaw, libel, load with reproaches, malign, mark, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, obfuscate, obnubilate, obscure, obumbrate, occult, occultate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, oversmoke, pillory, rag, rail at, rate, rave against, reprimand, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, slander, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, somber, soot, spot, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish, throw mud at, thunder against, tongue-lash, traduce, vilify, vituperate, yell at, yelp at

Translations

 * Bulgarian: почерням
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian:
 * Russian: чернить, зачернить
 * Sumerian: salamu
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: цапам
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Russian: пачкать, испачкать , запачкать ; марать , измарать , замарать ; загрязнять , загрязнить


 * Swedish: svärta


 * Bulgarian: очерням
 * Dutch:
 * Russian: чернить, очернять , очернить


 * Swedish: svärta ner


 * Bulgarian: почернявам
 * French:


 * Russian: чернеть, почернеть
 * Swedish: