darken

(transitive)To make dark or darker by reducing light.

Đồng nghĩa: bedark, blacken, endark, swarten

(intransitive)To become dark or darker (having less light).

Đồng nghĩa: blacken, mirken, swarten

(impersonal)To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).

Đồng nghĩa: dusk

(transitive)To make dark or darker in colour.

(intransitive)To become dark or darker in colour.

(transitive)To render gloomy, darker in mood.

Đồng nghĩa: begloom, bring down, dispirit, aggrieve, attrist, begloom, begrieve, besorrow, grieve, pain, bring down, come down on, contristate, darken, dash, deject, depress, desolate, dispirit, engrieve, forset, get down, grieven, moan, oppress, repent, rue, sadden, sadden up, tristitiate, ungladden, unhappy, upset

(intransitive)To become gloomy, darker in mood.

1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, London: T. Cadell Jun[ior] and W. Davies, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 303, His countenance darkened while he spoke […]

Đồng nghĩa: gloom, mourn, yearn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven, bleed, lament, moan, mourn, remorse, repent, regret, rue, sigh, sorrow, wayment, yearn

(transitive)To blind, impair the eyesight.

1773, Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell dated 5 July, 1773, in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume I, London: Charles Dilly, p. 424, When your letter came to me, I was so darkened by an inflammation in my eye, that I could not for some time read it.

Đồng nghĩa: beblind, blinden, exoculate, inblind

(intransitive)To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.

(transitive)To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

Đồng nghĩa: becloud, bedarken, bedim, fog

(transitive)To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

Đồng nghĩa: befoul, denigrate, soil, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle

(intransitive)To be extinguished or deprived of vitality, to die.

Đồng nghĩa: cross the Styx, expire, pass away, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy the farm, buy it, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, croak, cross over, cross rainbow bridge, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, darken, decease, decompose, dematerialize, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, drop off the hooks, exit, expire, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go out, go over to the majority, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, go to glory, go to one's reward, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, kick off, knock off, liquidate, lose my life for Jesus Christ, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass, pass away, pass in one's checks, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay nature's debt, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost