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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Darken

Dark′en (därk′'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Darkened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Darkening (-n·ĭng).] [AS. deorcian. See Dark, a.] 1. To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15.

So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.

2. To render dim; to deprive of vision.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 10.

3. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight. Bacon.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job. xxxviii. 2.

4. To cast a gloom upon.

With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth of the feast. Shak.

5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

I must not think there are Evils enough to darken all his goodness. Shak.

Dark′en, v. i. To grow or darker.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.