Definition of "blackening" [blackening]

• Present participle of blacken. (verb)
• The act of turning black in colour; a black stain or mark. (noun)

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• "Finally, the vampire can wait no longer, skin blackening and sloughing off his arms."
• "Yet one can go too far in blackening the name of a man who did such an excellent job of blackening it on his own."
• "Biography, Michael Shelden expended effort in blackening the character of"