different between blicken vs blacken

English

Etymology

From Middle English bliknen (“to glitter, grow pale”), from Old Norse blíkna (“to become pale”). Influenced by Middle English bliken (“to shine”), from Old English bl?can (“to shine, glitter, gleam”). More at blike, blick.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?n

Verb

blicken (third-person singular simple present blickens, present participle blickening, simple past and past participle blickened)

1. (intransitive) To become pale.
2. (intransitive) To shine.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German blicken, from Old High German blicchen, from Proto-West Germanic *blik, from Proto-Germanic *blik? (“look”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bl?k??/, /?bl?k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Verb

blicken (weak, third-person singular present blickt, past tense blickte, past participle geblickt, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to look (usually in a certain direction toward something)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• schauen

Derived terms

Further reading

• “blicken” in Duden online
• “blicken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “blicken” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

blicken

1. definite singular of blick

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

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