Bible Dictionaries
Blacken

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To make dark; to darken; to cloud.

(2):

(v. t.) To make or render black.

(3):

(v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

(4):

(v. i.) To grow black or dark.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blacken'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/blacken.html. 1828.