dusk

UK /dʌsk/ US /dʌsk/
noun 3verb 2adj 1

Definitions

adj

1

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

noun

1

The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.

Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.

We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.

2

A darkish colour.

Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

3

The condition of being dusky; duskiness

verb

1

To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.

I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,

2

To make dusk.

After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.

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