endarken

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US/ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/UK/ɪnˈdɑːkən/UK/ɛnˈdɑːkən/

verb

To render dark or darker.

Opposite
enlighten
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Meanings

verbendarken (third-person singular simple present endarkens, present participle endarkening, simple past and past participle endarkened)

present singular third person endarkens · participle present endarkening · participle past endarkened · past endarkened

  1. literaryraretransitiveTo render dark or darker.

    Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.

    1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury
    1 more example

    […] moral education cannot be […] purely enlightened and enlightening […] it cannot be simply a matter of teaching [people] to calculate the long term profit and the loss, while leaving […] desires to develop independently. It must involve an endarkened and endarkening component, by which [people] are taught precisely to cease [their] calculations, to regard certain paths as forbidden, as places where neither profit nor loss has authority.

  2. literarytransitiveTo becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound.

Synonyms & antonyms

antonym(s) of “render dark”

Opposite
enlighten

Origin

From en- + darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten.

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Translations

Dutch verduisteren
  • verduisterento render dark or darker
Hungarian besötétít, elsötétít
  • besötétítto render dark or darker
  • elsötétítto render dark or darker
  • elhomályosítto obscure, to obfuscate; to confound
Swedish förmörka
  • förmörkato render dark or darker
Cite this entry
APA

endarken. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endarken

MLA

“endarken.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endarken. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “endarken,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endarken.

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