darkle
Americanverb (used without object)
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to appear dark; show indistinctly.
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to grow dark, gloomy, etc.
verb
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to grow dark; darken
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(intr) to appear dark or indistinct
Etymology
Origin of darkle
1790–1800; back formation from darkling, adv. taken as present participle
Example Sentences
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In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.
From Legends of the Northwest by Gordon, Hanford Lennox
And the fire-flies wink and darkle, Crowded swarms that soar and sparkle, And in wildering escort gather!
From Faust by Taylor, Bayard
Canst thou shine now, then darkle, And being latent, feel thyself no less?
From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Stars, for my mariner sparkle, As the nights darkle!
From Targum by Borrow, George Henry
Eye of clear and diamond sparkle, Where the Baltic waters darkle, Lonely German seer of Reason, Great and calm as Atlas old; Through our formless foggy season, Short thine adamantine cold.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
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