darkened

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dark·en

(där′kən)

v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens

v.tr.

a. To make dark or darker.

b. To give a darker hue to.

2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy.

3. To render vague or uncertain; obscure: The sudden drop in stock prices darkened the future for investors.

4. To tarnish or stain: a scandal that darkened the family's good name.

v.intr.

To become dark or darker.

dark′en·er n.

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darkened

(ˈdɑːkənd)

adj

(of a building or room) having no lights on inside

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Adj.	1.	darkened - (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time; "the darkened margins of the paper" old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
	2.	darkened - become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater" dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"

darkened

adjective unlit, dark, shadowy, poorly lit, tenebrous, unilluminated He drove past darkened houses.

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darkened

[ˈdɑː^rkənd] adj [house, room] → plongé(e) dans l'obscuritédark glasses npl → lunettes fpl noiresdark-haired [ˌdɑː^rkˈhɛə^rd] adj → aux cheveux brunsdark horse n

(= person) → quantité f inconnue

(US) (POLITICS) → candidat(e) m/f inattendu(e)

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South-west is the quarter of the heavens where he presents his darkened brow.

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And not for that day and hour alone were the mind and conscience darkened of this man on whom the responsibility for what was happening lay more than on all the others who took part in it.

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I met my mates in the morning (I'll never meet them more!); They came and went in legions that darkened all the shore.

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But the traveller, travelling through it, May not - dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed; So wills its King, who hath forbid The uplifting of the fringed lid; And thus the sad Soul that here passes Beholds it but through darkened glasses.

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That with soft touch now brightens into jade Lintel and door, and when she lifts the blind Floats through the darkened chamber of her sleep; While leagues away my love-winged messages Go flocking home; and though they mingle not, Our thoughts seek one another.

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The first glimpse made me start - but my eyes were darkened with exhaustion and despair.

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By degrees, as they could bear no more, they dropped off one by one, and lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the casements darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished.

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I went through the dreary house, and darkened the windows.

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Even in the darkened room, I could not help seeing that Mrs.

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A black screen was drawn across his mirror of inner vision, and fancy lay in a darkened sick-room where entered no ray of light.

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In the darkened room, the din of yesterday was going on again: a little sobered and softened down, perhaps, but only a very little, if at all.

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It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me, Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine.