To reduce the quantity of light or brightness of something.
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.
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