blackening
Meaning of blackening
verb
- (causative) To cause to be or become black.
- To become black.
The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.
- (causative) To make dirty.
- To defame or sully.
- To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
noun
The act of turning black in colour; a black stain or mark.
Information about blackening
- The plural form of blackening is: blackenings.
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Hyphenation of blackening
black-en-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- blackening is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
blackening synonyms
Meaning darkening:
Meaning :
defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish, black, dirty, soil
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