Usually means: Make or become less bright.
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  1. darken: Merriam-Webster
  2. darken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. darken: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. darken: Collins English Dictionary
  5. darken: Vocabulary.com
  6. Darken, darken: Wordnik
  7. darken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. darken: Wiktionary
  9. darken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. darken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. darken: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Darken, darken: Dictionary.com
  13. darken: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Darken (film), Darken: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Darken: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. darken: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. darken: Rhymezone
  18. darken: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. darken: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. darken: FreeDictionary.org
  21. darken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. darken: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. darken: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

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  1. darken: Idioms

(Note: See darkened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make dark or darker by reducing light.
verb:  (intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
verb:  (impersonal) To get dark (referring to the sky, either in the evening or as a result of cloud).
verb:  (transitive) To make dark or darker in colour.
verb:  (intransitive) To become dark or darker in colour.
verb:  (transitive) To render gloomy, darker in mood.
verb:  (intransitive) To become gloomy, darker in mood.
verb:  (transitive) To blind, impair the eyesight.
verb:  (intransitive) To be blinded, lose one’s eyesight.
verb:  (transitive) To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
verb:  (transitive) To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
verb:  (intransitive) To be extinguished or deprived of vitality, to die.

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