DARKENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does darkened mean? 

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

1. (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time

2. become or made dark by lack of light

  Familiarity information: DARKENED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARKENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time

Context example:

the darkened margins of the paper

Similar:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become or made dark by lack of light

Context example:

the darkened theater

Similar:

dark (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black)

 Context examples 

But she would have forgiven me; she would have stuck as close to me as a rope to a block if that woman had never darkened our door.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The windows of the room had before been darkened, and I felt a kind of panic on seeing the pale yellow light of the moon illuminate the chamber.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The sky was darkened, and a low rumbling sound was heard in the air.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The windows of the chamber where he lay, I darkened last.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Once he dared, one afternoon, when he found her in the darkened living room with a blinding headache.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then came the horrible discovery which has darkened my life, and which was as great a mystery to me as it has been to you.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The face of the Gascon darkened, and his eyes flashed with resentment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again, as he kissed me, painful thoughts darkened his aspect.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As we peered from the darkened sitting-room of the lodging-house, one more dim light glimmered high up through the obscurity.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The air burst and ground impact darkened an area of the Martian surface about 5 miles (8 kilometers) across.

(NASA Mars weathercam helps find big new crater, NASA)