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blacken

verb as in darken

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Many of the lemon trees remain, as if untouched; others were wiped out completely, the hills where they stood blackened and desiccated.

As Jensen used a window screen to sift the safe’s ashen contents for diamonds and stones, his wife Dawn DaMart wandered the blackened foundation searching for tokens of the couple’s life before the Mountain fire.

There’s so much character in the stray paint strokes, the blackened thighs.

After a major pipeline rupture five years ago, he started photographing and filming pools of oily water and heaps of blackened soil in locations in Unity State, including sites near Roriak, where the herders live.

From BBC

Zahraa wept when she saw footage of their blackened and mangled building.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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