blackened : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: blackened	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for blackened
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blackened adj darkened by smoke; "blackened rafters" (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" Synonym(s): black, blackened
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blacken \Black"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blackened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blackening}.] [See {Black}, a., and cf. {Black}, v. t. ] 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. --Pope. 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. [bd]Blackened the whole heavens.[b8] --South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character. Syn: To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse.