darken

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make dark or darker by reducing light.

   “[…] they [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened […]”

2. fiil To become dark or darker (having less light).

   “[…] the owl and the bat flew round the darkening trees:”

3. fiil To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).

   “Well, I must go in now; and you too: it darkens.”

4. fiil To make dark or darker in colour.

   “She puts on lipstick and darkens her eyebrows, which are now very scanty […]”

5. fiil To become dark or darker in colour.

   “The lovely hair had lost its rose-gold glimmer, and had darkened to rose-brown […]”

6. fiil To render gloomy, darker in mood.

   “With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth o’ the feast.”

7. fiil To become gloomy, darker in mood.

   “1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, London: T. Cadell Jun[ior] and W. Davies, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 303, His countenance darkened while he spoke […]”

8. fiil To blind, impair the eyesight.

   “Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see […]”

9. fiil To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.
10. fiil To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

    “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”

11. fiil To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

    “I must not think there are Evils enow to darken all his goodness:”

12. fiil To be extinguished or deprived of vitality, to die.

    “The Danube to the Severn gave ⁠The darken’d heart that beat no more; ⁠They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave.”