BLACK vs BLACKEN: NOUN
- Total absence of light
- British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
- Popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927)
- A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- (board games) the darker pieces
- The condition of making or operating at a profit.
- The player using these pieces.
- The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.
- Something that is colored black.
- An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
- A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
- Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
- Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
- A pigment or dye having this color value.
- Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
- The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
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BLACK vs BLACKEN: ADJECTIVE
- Distributed or sold illicitly
- Harshly ironic or sinister
- Marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor.
- Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- Soiled with dirt or soot
- Dressed in black
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
- Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified.
- Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations.
- Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue.
- Extremely dark
- Attended with disaster; calamitous.
- Marked by anger or sullenness.
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- Offering little or no hope
- Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
- Cheerless and depressing; gloomy.
- Evil; wicked.
- Soiled, as from soot; dirty.
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a black diamond, indicating a high level of difficulty.
- Very dark in color.
- Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.
- Having little or no light.
- Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
- Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- Served without milk or cream.
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BLACK vs BLACKEN: VERB
- Make or become black
- To make dirty.
- To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
- To defame or sully.
- Burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- Make or become black
- To become black.
BLACK vs BLACKEN: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To apply blacking to.
- To boycott as part of a labor union action.
- To become black.
- To make black.
- To make black.
- To sully or defame.
- To coat (fish or meat, for example) with pepper and other spices and then quickly sear in a very hot skillet, thereby producing meat that is black on the outside but tender on the inside.
- To become dark or black.
BLACK vs BLACKEN: TRANSITIVE VERB
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- To make or render black.
- To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
- To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous.
BLACK vs BLACKEN: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To make black; blacken or put a black color on; soil; stain: as, to black one's hands.
- To clean and polish (shoes, etc.) by blacking and brushing them.
- To blacken; stain; sully; defame.
- To become black; take on a black color.
- To poach. See black, n., 8.
- Dark-complexioned.
- A person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
- Wicked or dishonorable
- Bringing ruin
- In founding, to coat (the face of a mold) with graphite, or any mixture used for the purpose, in order to create a surface which will gasify under the heat of the molten metal.
- Figuratively, to sully; make infamous; defame; cause to appear immoral or vile: as, vice blackens the character.
- To make black; darken.
- To grow black or dark.
BLACK vs BLACKEN: RELATED WORDS
- Evil, Angry, Opprobrious, Dim, Dirty, Colorful, Blackened, Clothed, Achromatic, Achromatic, Clad, Negroid, Dark, Negro, Colored
- Discolour, Disfigure, Tarnish, Darken, Besmirch, Demonise, Tar, Undermine, Defame, Denigrate, Nigrify, Melanize, Black, Char, Scorch
BLACK vs BLACKEN: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Evil, Angry, Opprobrious, Dim, Dirty, Colorful, Blackened, Clothed, Achromatic, Achromatic, Clad, Negroid, Dark, Negro, Colored
- Discredit, Malign, Burnish, Singe, Discolour, Disfigure, Tarnish, Darken, Besmirch, Tar, Undermine, Denigrate, Black, Char, Scorch
BLACK vs BLACKEN: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- This week at my house I have a black dog, gray cat, and two black horses.
- The black tabletop, black ceramics, and white cabinetry look fabulous against a backdrop of natural wood.
- Blacks began to boycott businesses in black neighborhoods that would not hire black workers.
- Buttercup and barnevelder chicks are brown with black markings and black ameraucana chicks are black and white.
- The Silkie bird is black throughout: skin, muscles and bones are all black.
- COLOR: White clock face with black numbers and black mounting frame.
- OHA percent black households are located in predominantly black census tracts.
- Chicago and stop the black on black crime?
- White indentured servants, free black servants, free black children of indentured servants, free black servants turned black slave owners, and so forth.
- The Mezzo has multiple viewing modes, including black on white, white on black, green on black, yellow on black and yellow on blue.
- Even the jokes about such a comic could blacken your eyes with their obviousness.
- Typically two males in breeding conditionwill blacken their beards and perform headbobbing behaviours.
- Do not blacken your fame, and perish in tax deductions home business dishonor.
- Why should he labour, and bring fresh grief to blacken his years?
- May Allah blacken your face and curse you Abu Bakr lovers.
- Students should read each question carefully and blacken the appropriate box.
- With excess of current the pieces become gray, and blacken.
- SYN: Asperse, defame, calumniate, vilify, abuse, scandalize, traduce, belittle, blacken.
- Do NOT let them burn or blacken all over!
- You can blacken my name to the King.
BLACK vs BLACKEN: QUESTIONS
- What did the Royal Black Institution say about the Black Saturday incident?
- Why does Mr Hooper wear a black veil in the Minister's Black Veil?
- Is not acting black the most important rule for dating a black woman?
- Can Monistat for black hair growth be mixed with Jamaican black castor oil?
- How do you find the black height of a red black tree?
- Is Djarum Black cigars the same as djarums black clove cigarettes?
- Why does my black justified order ship with a black band?
- Is Dorea black related to Sirius Black and James Potter?
- What is the black market in Black Ops 3 multiplayer?
- Are black gram whole lentils the same as black beans?
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