blacken
verb (used with object)
to make black; darken.
had been blackening
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past perfect progressiveof blacken.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He vehemently swore he knew nothing about it, and insisted upon hearing what poisonous old woman had been blackening his name, and what infamous lies I had been fool enough to believe.
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
