blacken
verb (used with object)
to make black; darken.
has been blackening
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present perfect progressiveof blacken (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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“Who has been blackening my name to you?”
From Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey
He, then, through this agency, has been blackening your columns with his iron hoof.
From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Joseph Bates
