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DARKEN

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darken verb A. tranzitiv

1. a întuneca, a face întuneric în;

not to darken smb.’s door again a nu mai călca / a nu mai trece pragul cuiva.

2. a orbi, a lipsi de vedere.

3. (arte) a închide (o culoare).

4. (fig.) a întuneca, a înnegura, a umbri, a păta.

5. (fig.) a tulbura, a întuneca, a întrista.

6. (fig.) a pângări (onoarea cuiva).

7. (fig.) a încurca (sensul), a face mai neclar / obscur (o chestiune);

to darken counsel a da sfaturi prosteşti.

darken verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se întuneca, a se face întuneric.

2. a se înnegri; a se închide la culoare / la faţă.

3. (fig.) a se întrista, a se posomorî.

4. (fig.) a-şi pierde strălucirea / cultura / ştiinţa.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Several of the back windows on the staircase had been darkened or wholly blocked up.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Well, I must go in now; and you too: it darkens.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

‘Sarah,’ says I as I went in, ‘this man Fairbairn is never to darken my door again.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Biting winds and tropical suns had combined to darken them, whilst the habit of command and the menace of ever-recurring dangers had stamped them all with the same expression of authority and of alertness.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The space environment is harsh; many things can cause material exposed to space to change chemically and darken over time, including impacts from microscopic meteorites and the effects of the solar wind – a million-mile-per-hour stream of electrically conducting gas blown from the surface of the sun.

(NASA Research Gives New Insights into How the Moon Got 'Inked', NASA)

Again I looked at her, again I listened to her after she was silent, and again his image, though it was still fixed in my heart, darkened.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I went through the dreary house, and darkened the windows.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I have my own opinions, resumed Mr. Murdstone, whose face darkened more and more, the more he and my aunt observed each other, which they did very narrowly, as to the best mode of bringing him up; they are founded, in part, on my knowledge of him, and in part on my knowledge of my own means and resources.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I sat looking at her as she cast her eyes down on her work; I sat seeming still to listen to her; and Steerforth, in spite of all my attachment to him, darkened in that tone.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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