Verb (used with object) : He darkened the festivities by his presence. From Dictionary.com.
The most innocent darkener of the brow is the expressed juice of the elderberry, or a burnt clove. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Most of the time she applied her eyebrow darkener and lipstick higher or lower than where it belonged. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
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 eyes go blearing helplessly after their final darkener. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
We called these ash balls mä'dạkạpa isĕ'pĕ, or mä'dạkạpa darkener. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden] Reference
Ever Glow Daily Moisturizer claimed to maintain summer color with gentle skin darkener. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Ever Glow was written in gold and capital letters followed by the words "Daily Moisturizer with gentle skin darkener". From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
They are stolen every night by Vritra the concealer, and Cæcius the darkener, and Indra is obliged to spend hours in looking for them, sending Sarama, the inconstant twilight, to negotiate for their recovery. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology] Reference
A pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth, with which a man goes groping in the dark, no otherwise than if he were blind. From Wordnik.com. [Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems] Reference
A darkener of the threshold. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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