blackened

English

Etymology

From Middle English blakend, blakind, blakkenid, blakenid, equivalent to blacken +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

blackened (comparative more blackened, superlative most blackened)

1. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:
   • 1939 July, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 34:

     [...] after journeying across pleasant agricultural countryside to Leicester and thence though the blackened and busy industrial area that stretches almost unbrokenly for over 100 miles from Trent through Rotherham and Leeds to Keighley, [...].

   • 2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 58, about the Moorgate tube crash:

     A witness quoted by The Times described "the blackened faces of firemen sitting outside the station in the cold, drinking tea from local sandwich shops in complete silence".

   1. (food) Synonym of charred.

      Hypernym: toasted

   2. (steel) Synonym of blued.

      Hypernym: treated

Antonyms

• whitened

Hypernyms

• darkened

Derived terms

• pitch-blackened
• unblackened

Related terms

• blacked
• blackening (noun)
• blacking (noun)

Translations

darkened to the point blackness

• Esperanto: nigrita
• Spanish: ennegrecido (es)

Verb

blackened

1. simple past and past participle of blacken

References

• “blackened”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.