blackened
- (especially of fish) coated with spices and sautéed quickly over high heat so that the outside chars.
blacken
- to make black; darken.
- to speak evil of; defame: to blacken a person's reputation.
- to grow or become black.
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blot, smudge, tarnish, sully, stain, soil, befoul, shade, deepen, cloud, begrime, ink, ebonize, defile, decry, traduce, knock, slur, blotch, malignExamples from the Web for blackened
Contemporary Examples of blackened
Blood and blackened remnants are caked on the bathroom floor.
Eyebrows Cressida: Imagine eyebrows drawn on a balloon with a blackened cork.
The rear ramp dropped open, and Lance Cpl. Williams saw a blackened hull spouting flames 30 feet high.
The Mental Health of Our Wounded Warriors: PTSD Isn't the Only AfflictionJustin Green
February 16, 2013
But inside the destroyed entrance, down the blackened hallways, through the blown-out doors, there is a room with a light on.
Which may be why we so want to see his blackened head, pulverized by taxpayer bullets.
Historical Examples of blackened
The shop was built of rough boards, and the inside was blackened with soot.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr
My mind misgave me, for Calderon's name is blackened by many curses.
Calderon The CourtierEdward Bulwer-Lytton
There were the four blackened walls, and a rusted iron ring in one of them.
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
The face of the dead man was distorted and blackened by the agony of strangulation.
Henry DunbarM. E. Braddon
The Captain's face was blackened, and his clothes were scorched, but his spirit was undaunted.
Cap'n EriJoseph Crosby Lincoln
blacken
- to make or become black or dirty
- (tr) to defame; slander (esp in the phrase blacken someone's name)