darkle

American  

[dahr-kuhl] / ˈdɑr kəl /

verb (used without object)

darkled, darkling

1. to appear dark; show indistinctly.

2. to grow dark, gloomy, etc.

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darkle British  

/ ˈdɑːkəl /

verb

1. to grow dark; darken

2. (intr) to appear dark or indistinct

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Etymology

Origin of darkle

1790–1800; back formation from darkling, adv. taken as present participle

Example Sentences

Canst thou shine now, then darkle, And being latent, feel thyself no less?

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A single hobgoblin bassoon croaks ludicrously away, the pixies darkle and flirt and dance their hearts out of them.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

There are desolate wastes of cat-briers and witch-hopple under leprous tangles of grey birches, where stealthy little brooks darkle deep under matted d�bris.

From The Slayer Of souls by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Stars, for my mariner sparkle, As the nights darkle!

From Targum by Borrow, George Henry

In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox