BLACKENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blackened mean? 

• BLACKENED (adjective)
  The adjective BLACKENED has 2 senses:

1. darkened by smoke

2. (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

  Familiarity information: BLACKENED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACKENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Darkened by smoke

Context example:

blackened rafters

Similar:

smoky (marked by or emitting or filled with smoke)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

Synonyms:

black; blackened

Context example:

a face black with fury

Similar:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

 Context examples 

The low ceiling, smoke-blackened and dingy, was pierced by several square trap-doors with rough-hewn ladders leading up to them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No wrathful Macedonia broke its surface nor blackened the sky with her smoke.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On the floor close to his hand there was a little round of paper, blackened on the one side.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Where are you going?” said the tinker, gripping the bosom of my shirt with his blackened hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The planet stands out very clearly in the new observations, visible as a bright point to the right of the blackened centre of the image.

(First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet, ESO)

He blackened the name of a great, noble man who is dead.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"You were in trouble last month for the same thing. You've blackened this young man's eye. Do you give him in charge, sir?"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was one of the many curious fashions which have now died out, that men who were blasé from luxury and high living seemed to find a fresh piquancy in life by descending to the lowest resorts, so that the night-houses and gambling-dens in Covent Garden or the Haymarket often gathered illustrious company under their smoke-blackened ceilings.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)