darkened

Collocations

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ADJ.

all, angelic, soon, yellow

VERB + DARKENED

air, clouds, coming, died, eyes

DARKENED + NOUN

afternoon, breeze, landscape, room, skies, sky, soham

PREP.

across, after, towards, without

ADV.

brightly, suddenly

Definitions

adj

1

Made dark or lightproof by the exclusion of light.

2

Having an absence of light, such as at night-time.

Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.

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Far less straightforward was what happened at about 0130 on Friday June 2 1944, as a long goods train was chuffing and clanking its unhurried way across the darkened landscape towards Soham, from Ely.

Wiktionary

02

Her eyes darkened.

Tatoeba · #309810

03

He darkened the room.

Tatoeba · #453549

04

The legend says that the day she died, an eclipse darkened the skies.

Tatoeba · #1169755

05

Suddenly, the clouds darkened the sky.

Tatoeba · #1177008

06

At the end of April, the water of the Yellow River had darkened.

Tatoeba · #2367594