Darkens synonyms and antonyms

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tints
(Intransitive) To shade, to color.
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tarnishes
To lose luster; grow dull; discolor, as from oxidation
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sullies
Sully is defined as to spoil or stain, or to disgrace.
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shadows
To cast a shadow on; darken or shade:
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shades
To represent degrees of shade or shadow in:
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perplexes
To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt.
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overshadows
To cast a shadow over; darken or obscure.
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obscures
Obscure is defined as to make confusing or hard to see.
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obfuscates
To render indistinct or dim; darken:
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glooms
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
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eclipses
To obscure; darken.
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dulls
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
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discolors
To change or lose color.
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dims
To grow dim
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deepens
(Intransitive) To become deeper
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confuses
To embarrass; disconcert; abash
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clouds
To darken; obscure; threaten
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blackens
(Intransitive)To become black.
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beclouds
To cloud over; darken
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adumbrates
To overshadow; shadow or obscure.
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brightens (antonym)
(Intransitive) To grow bright, or more bright in color; to clear up
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lightens (antonym)
To lessen the severity or oppressiveness of:
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illuminates (antonym)
(Intransitive) to be exposed to light
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illumines (antonym)
To illuminate.
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whitens (antonym)
(Intransitive) To become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
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lights (related)
In a light manner; lightly.
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  • The supervisory lamp associated with the peg in the wanted subscriber's jack glows from the time that the peg is inserted until the subscriber responds, when it darkens, in which condition it remains until the subscriber restores the receiver to the hook and causes the lamp to light up again.

  • The saturated aqueous solution is colourless and fumes strongly on exposure to air; after a time it darkens in colour owing to liberation of iodine.

  • Silk is readily distinguished from wool and other animal fibres by the action of an alkaline solution of oxide of lead, which darkens wool, &c., owing to the sulphur they contain, but does not affect silk, which is free from that body.

  • On exposure to light the colour quickly darkens.

  • It consists essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, and by the absorption of oxygen as it becomes old it darkens in colour and develops resinous compounds.

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