Definition of "darkener" []

• An object that darkens. (noun)

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• "As Cæcius, the "darkener," became ultimately changed into Cacus, the "evil one," so the name of Vritra, the "concealer," the most famous of the Panis, was gradually generalized until it came to mean "enemy," like the English word fiend, and began to be applied indiscriminately to any kind of evil spirit."
• "Most of the time she applied her eyebrow darkener and lipstick higher or lower than where it belonged."
• "He should have throttled Weissmann where he sat, corrugations of skinny throat and Adam's apple sliding under P-kler's palms, thick eyeglasses sliding off as the weak little eyes go blearing helplessly after their final darkener ...."