blacken
Example Sentences
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The spill blackened popular beaches, killed wildlife and hurt tourism and fishing.
Gio and Roman came out with blackened faces and hands and filthy clothes, beaming.
A hiker clambers across a scorched landscape of ash, his footsteps crunching on charred earth as he peers over a ridge at a burn scar pocked with blackened stumps.
From Los Angeles Times
"The fire spread to every corner -- I don't know if any consignment could escape," said one exhausted firefighter, whose uniform was greyed and hands blackened.
From Barron's
She said that people believed there was a "cover-up" and that the McCanns' names had been "blackened" and urged the couple to do a DNA test with Ms Wandelt.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
