Usually means: Reducing light; becoming more obscure.
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  1. darkening: Merriam-Webster
  2. darkening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. darkening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Darkening, darkening: Wordnik
  5. darkening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. darkening: Wiktionary
  7. Darkening, darkening: Dictionary.com
  8. darkening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Darkening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. darkening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. darkening: Rhymezone
  12. Darkening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. darkening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. darkening: FreeDictionary.org
  15. darkening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Darkening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darkening: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darkening: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (darkening)

▸ noun:  The act of something becoming darker.

Similar:
dark, blackening, deepening, blackenization, reddening, browning, lightening, quietening, shading, dyeing, more...

Opposite:
brightening, lightening, illumination

Types:
tanning, sunburn, sun tan, sun block, sun screen, sun cream, more...

Phrases:
limb darkening, gravity darkening, The Darkening Age, darkening sky, window darkening on car windows, more...

Adjectives:
slight, gradual, sudden, general, progressive, rapid, further, temporary, complete, limb, immediate

Colors:
    charcoal,     midnight blue,     onyx,     slate gray,     deep purple, more...



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Similar:
dark, blackening, deepening, blackenization, reddening, browning, lightening, quietening, shading, dyeing, more...

Opposite:
brightening, lightening, illumination

Types:
tanning, sunburn, sun tan, sun block, sun screen, sun cream, more...

Phrases:
limb darkening, gravity darkening, The Darkening Age, darkening sky, window darkening on car windows, darkening blackening gloomy, opposite of darkening, the darkening of an illustration, more...

Adjectives:
slight, gradual, sudden, general, progressive, rapid, further, temporary, complete, limb, immediate

Colors:
    charcoal,     midnight blue,     onyx,     slate gray,     deep purple, more...



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