darkening

Pronunciation:		d'ârkuning
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[n] changing to a darker color [adj] becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over; "the darkening sky"

	Synonyms:	blackening, dark

	See Also:	change of color, obfuscation

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Dark"en*ing\, n. Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Wright.

Thesaurus Terms

	Related Terms:	blackening, blocking the light, burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, deception, denigration, dimming, eclipsing, extinguishment, hiddenness, hiding, interment, invisibility, masking, melanization, mystification, nigrification, obfuscation, obnubilation, obscuration, obscurement, obumbration, occultation, occulting, overcast, overclouding, overshading, overshadowing, overshadowment, putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, shading, shadowing, smirch, smirching, smudge, smudging, smut, smutch, smutching, subterfuge, uncommunicativeness

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