blacken

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black +‎ -en (verbal suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈblækən/ Rhymes: -ækən === Verb === blacken (third-person singular simple present blackens, present participle blackening, simple past and past participle blackened) (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black. (intransitive, ergative) To become black. (transitive, causative) To make dirty. To defame or sully. (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan. ==== Synonyms ==== (make black): black, denigrate (make dirty): dirty, soil (defame): defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Swedish == === Noun === blacken definite singular of black