bedarken
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bĭdärʹkn, IPA(key): /bɪˈdɑːkn̩/
Verb
[edit]bedarken (third-person singular simple present bedarkens, present participle bedarkening, simple past and past participle bedarkened)
- To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 6: Hero-Worship”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem):
- #*: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous
- 1962, Joseph Gies, Adventure Underground: Tunnels, page 260:
- Even if there had been a glimmer of light, the dust would have robbed us of it; it was dense enough to bedarken an out-of-doors spot.