blackened

[blak-uhnd]

adjective

1. (especially of fish) coated with spices and sautéed quickly over high heat so that the outside chars.

Other Word Forms

• unblackened adjective

Example Sentences

A hiker clambers across a scorched landscape of ash, his footsteps crunching on charred earth as he peers over a ridge at a burn scar pocked with blackened stumps.

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"The fire spread to every corner -- I don't know if any consignment could escape," said one exhausted firefighter, whose uniform was greyed and hands blackened.

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She said that people believed there was a "cover-up" and that the McCanns' names had been "blackened" and urged the couple to do a DNA test with Ms Wandelt.

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“Char is good but you don’t want it blackened,” he said.

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Tole, whose eyes had been blackened out to protect his identity at the time, is wearing what appears to be a neck brace and is hooked up to monitors.

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Related Words

• disheveled 
• grimy 
• grubby 
• grungy 
• muddy 
• nasty 
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• squalid