1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope
2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South.
3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
Syn. — To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse.
BLACKEN
Black"en, v. i.
Defn: To grow black or dark.
BLACKENER
Black"en*er, n.
Defn: One who blackens.
BLACK-EYED
Black"-eyed`, a.
Defn: Having black eyes. Dryden.