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blacker

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?blæk?/

Etymology 1

black (verb) +? -er

Noun

blacker (plural blackers)

  1. One who blacks.
    • 1895, The Gopher: Annual Publication of the Student Body of the University of Minnesota
      Then "G. A. R." did shoulder his burden and with much labor made footprints for a hostelry afar off, where he might put it in for safe keeping, while the venders of papers and the ragged blackers of boots followed in his train and pelted him […]

Etymology 2

Adjective

blacker

  1. comparative form of black: more black

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blacken

English

Etymology

From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black +? -en (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?blæk?n/
  • Rhymes: -æk?n

Verb

blacken (third-person singular simple present blackens, present participle blackening, simple past and past participle blackened)

  1. (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
  2. (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
  3. (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
  4. To defame or sully.
  5. (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.

Synonyms

  • (make black): black, denigrate
  • (make dirty): dirty, soil
  • (defame): defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish

Translations

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