bedarken

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English

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Etymology

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From be- +‎ darken.

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Verb

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bedarken (third-person singular simple present bedarkens, present participle bedarkening, simple past and past participle bedarkened)

  1. To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.
    • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 6: Hero-Worship”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem):
      #*: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous
    • 1962, Joseph Gies, Adventure Underground: Tunnels, page 260:
      Even if there had been a glimmer of light, the dust would have robbed us of it; it was dense enough to bedarken an out-of-doors spot.

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