Blacken
Blacken ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[See Black, a., and compare Black, transitive verb ]
1.
To make or render black.
While the long funerals blacken all the way.
2.
To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
Blackened the whole heavens.
3.
To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
Blacken , intransitive verb
To grow black or dark.