blacken
verb (used with object)
to make black; darken.
is blackening
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present progressiveof blacken (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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There is a curse in a false ambition like the one that is blackening your soul.
From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood
For the sake of its excellent savour, For the many sweet smokes of the past My pipe keeps its hold on my favour, Tho' now it is blackening fast.
From The Social History of Smoking by George Latimer Apperson
I shall be glad to see this Cyclops, who is blackening all the valley.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
Osmond here to-day; and over my work I heard papa tell him Alfred is blackening his character in the town with some impossible story about fourteen thousand pounds.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
