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To reduce the quantity of light or brightness of something.
darken
1
Its business is the contemplation and worship of the mystery of life, "the mystery we
make
darker
with a name."
2
Occasional woods of holm oak
make
darker
patches on the landscape, and a few pines fringe the side of enclosure walls or towers.
3
This reaction upon my state, only
made
darker
the clouds that veiled my spirits.
4
It was a great high-ceiled chamber with its distant corners
made
darker
by the moonlight.
5
On his nose and cheeks, tiny lines of purple tracing
made
darker
areas in his skin.
6
Stumbling, I looked up into dark eyes,
made
darker
by the brim of a baseball cap.
7
Ambrose's sitting room was dark, and
made
darker
by a haze of smoke in the air.
8
The bare trees,
made
darker
by the recent wet weather, stood out starkly against the gray sky.
9
Across the river Algiers lay, a long, irregular blot,
made
darker
by the dawn which lightened the sky beyond.
10
And so, as they walked homeward, they discouraged each other, and
made
darker
the clouds that obscured their whole horizon.
11
The smoke of the factory chimneys was now invisible, but the chimneys, like rows of minarets,
made
darker
streaks in the gloom.
12
The Treason of Arnold.%-Theoutlook was now dark enough; but it was
made
darker
still by the treachery of Benedict Arnold.
13
The fate of the victim whom they had endeavoured to save would only have been
made
darker
and more hopeless by their interference.
14
It was called "blackface", and it
made
darker
people sad and angry even though the fair-skinned people said it was just in good fun.
make
darker
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