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v. To make black.

v. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name.

v. To coat (fish or meat, for example) with pepper and other spices and then quickly sear in a very hot skillet, thereby producing meat that is black on the outside but tender on the inside.

verb-intransitive. To become dark or black: The day blackened into night.

v. To make black.

v. To make dirty.

v. To defame or sully.

v. To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.

v. To become black.

v. To make or render black.

v. To make dark; to darken; to cloud.

v. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous.

verb-intransitive. To grow black or dark.

To grow black or dark.

To make black; darken.

Figuratively, to sully; make infamous; defame; cause to appear immoral or vile: as, vice blackens the character.

In founding, to coat (the face of a mold) with graphite, or any mixture used for the purpose, in order to create a surface which will gasify under the heat of the molten metal.

v. make or become black

v. burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color

"Although there are two distinct schools of thought on grilled chicken, one that advocates par boiling and one that does not, Mexican cooks do not par boil and are not afraid to let the chicken skin blacken on the outside while the chicken cooks through."

blackened    blackening    blackens    blacking   

colour    color    discolour    discolor   

stain    sully   

asperse    vilify    malign    denigrate    calumniate    traduce    slander    defame    darken    cloud   

Machen    bracken    slacken   

char    half-burned    tattooing    broken-off