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# blackening

«blackening» in Mova's school dictionary: **Becoming black or darker, or making something black or dark** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb, -ing form of blacken (blacken, blackens, blackened, blackening); noun (blackening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Becoming black or darker, or making something black or dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#m1)

2) Damaging someone's good name by saying bad things about them (blackening their name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#m2)

3) (noun) The process or result of something going black, like burnt toast or rotting fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, soot and smoke blacken things; in stories, «the sky was blackening» means a storm is coming. In cooking, blackening is a way of cooking fish or meat with spices in a very hot pan (Cajun style). «Blackening his name» means spreading bad stories about someone.

### examples

- The sky was blackening before the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#x1)
- The smoke is blackening the walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#x2)
- Bananas start blackening in the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#x3)
- He was accused of blackening his rival's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#x4)
- The chef was blackening the fish with spices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#x5)
- Frost caused blackening of the plant's leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/#x6)

### note

Base verb: blacken (add -en). Related: blackened (adjective, as in blackened toast).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blackening» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackening/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.