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blacks
[blak] 
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black
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | African-American |
| Synonyms: | African, Afro-American, Negro |
| Antonyms: | Caucasian, white |
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| Main Entry: | bruise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break blood vessel; discolor |
| Synonyms: | bang up, batter, beat, black, blacken, blemish, bung up, contuse, crush, damage, deface, do a number on, injure, mar, mark, pound, pulverize, wound, zing |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time that is unlit |
| Synonyms: | Cimmerian shade, black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latter part of a day |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Antonyms: | morning |
| Main Entry: | expunge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy, obliterate |
| Synonyms: | KO, X out, abolish, annihilate, annul, black, black out, blot out, blue pencil, call all bets off, call off, cancel, cut, delete, discard, drop, efface, eradicate, erase, exclude, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, gut, kayo, kill, knock off, launder, omit, raze, remove, scrub, strike out, take out, trim, wipe out, zap |
| Antonyms: | bear, build, construct, create |
| Main Entry: | night |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of day after sundown and before sunrise |
| Synonyms: | after dark, after hours, bedtime, before dawn, black*, blackness, dark, dark hours, darkness, dead of night, dim, dusk to dawn, duskiness, evening, eventide, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttide, nighttime, obscurity*, pitch dark, twilight, witching hour |
| Antonyms: | day |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nightfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of darkness |
| Synonyms: | black*, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, eventide, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers |
| Antonyms: | daybreak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gloaming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Main Entry: | vesper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, gloaming, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
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