blackened

comparative more blackened · superlative most blackened

1. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as

   A witness quoted by The Times described "the blackened faces of firemen sitting outside the station in the cold, drinking tea from local sandwich shops in complete silence".

   2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 58, about the Moorgate tube crash

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   [...] after journeying across pleasant agricultural countryside to Leicester and thence though the blackened and busy industrial area that stretches almost unbrokenly for over 100 miles from Trent through Rotherham and Leeds to Keighley, [...].

   1939 July, John D. Hewitt, “Some Notable British Main Lines: 1. Settle and Carlisle, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 34

2. Darkened to the point of appearing black; as:
   1. foodSynonym of charred.

      Synonyms: charred

   2. steelSynonym of blued.

      Synonyms: blued

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of blacken