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n. - Something that creates shadows, such as a thick cloud.

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Usage examples (10)
  • Verb (used with object) : He darkened the festivities by his presence
  • The most innocent darkener of the brow is the expressed juice of the elderberry, or a burnt clove.
  • 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...
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