Blackening
['blækəniŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blacken
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Examples
- There was no powder-blackening on the clothes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They stood together minute after minute, without further speech, each looking at the blackening scene, and each thinking his and her own thoughts. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In 1801 Ritter proved the existence of such invisible rays beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum by the power they possessed of blackening chloride of silver. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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