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What does blacken mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word blacken? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (ergative) (To cause) to be or become black.
  2. To make dirty.
  3. To defame or sully.
  4. To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
  5. (intransitive) To become black.
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His blue eyes blacken and I watch aghast, as he buries his face in his hands with a barely stifled groan.
They burn cork and blacken their faces, painting on big red lips, donning white gloves.
Halve and deseed the peppers and place, with rounded sides uppermost, under a preheated grill until the skins blacken.
The night before Bonfire Night was once known as Mischief Night, when children would blacken their faces and play pranks.
He then proceeded to blacken his face entirely while trying to remember the words to the song.
Children also used to blacken their faces, as Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators might have done.

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