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blackeningnoun the making of false statements that damage another's reputationblackening of the senator's good name disgusted voters aspersing, calumniation, calumny, character assassination, defamation, defaming, libel, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slander, smearing, traducing, vilification, vilifying aspersion, innuendo, muck, mud, smearbackbiting, detractionabuse, invective, vituperationattack, censure, criticism, denunciation, hatchet jobcontempt, disdain, scornbelittlement, denigration, disparagementcattiness, despite, hatefulness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom, viciousness acclaim, accolade, applause, commendation, praiseesteem, honor, respectadulation, flatteryadoration, reverence, veneration, worship blackeningverbpresent participle of blackento make dirtyblackened the towels with their dirty hands befouling, begriming, bemiring, besmirching, daubing, dirtying, distaining(archaic), fouling, gauming(dialect), griming, miring, mucking, muddying, smirching, smudging, soiling, staining, sullying contaminating, defiling, polluting, taintingdiscoloringconfusing, disarranging, disarraying, disheveling(or dishevelling), disordering, draggling, jumbling, messing, muddlingcollying(chiefly British dialect), crocking(dialect) cleaning, cleansing decontaminating, purging, purifyingdisinfecting, sanitizingbrushing, dry-cleaning, dusting, laundering, mopping, rinsing, scouring, scrubbing, sweeping, washing, wipingbrightening, deodorizing, freshening, renewing, sprucing (up)straightening (up), tidying (up) to make untrue and harmful statements aboutthe politician maliciously blackened his opponent's reputation aspersing, calumniating, defaming, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slandering, smearing, traducing, vilifying belittling, denigrating, detracting, disparagingdiscrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, shamingabasing, debasing, degrading, humbling, humiliatingdisdaining, scorning exalting, glorifying, honoringacclaiming, applauding, commending, praisingesteeming, respectingadmiring, regardingadoring, revering, venerating, worshipping(also worshiping) to make dark, dim, or indistinctthick smoke from the forest fires blackened the sky for many miles beclouding, bedimming, befogging, blearing, blurring, clouding, darkening, dimming, dislimning, fogging, fuzzing (up), hazing, misting, obscuring, overcasting, overclouding, overshadowing, shadowing, shrouding adumbrating, blotting out, concealing, eclipsing, hiding, obliterating, screening, shadingcamouflaging, cloaking, covering, curtaining, disguising, masking, veiling brightening, illuminating, illumining, lightening, lighting (up) exposing, revealing, uncovering, unveiling to grow darkthe auditorium blackened suddenly, and a spotlighted performer appeared alone on stage blacking out, closing in, darkening, dusking dimming, fading, waningglooming, lowering(also louring) brightening, lightening, lighting dawningbeaming, glowing, radiating, shining ca. 1909 |