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# blackened

adjective (blackened); verb (blacken, blackens, blackened, blackening — past form)

«blackened» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Blackened means made black or dark, for example by fire, smoke or dirt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#m1)
2. (cooking) Blackened food has been cooked in a very hot pan with spices so the outside turns dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#m2)
3. To blacken someone's name is to damage their reputation by saying bad things about them; blackened is its past form. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories blackened walls or trees tell the reader there has been a fire. In history lessons, blackened buildings come from coal smoke in old cities. In cooking it is a style of Cajun food from Louisiana, USA. Phrases: blackened by smoke, blackened fish, blacken someone's name.

### Examples

- The fire left the walls blackened and burnt. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#x1)
- Blackened trees stood on the hillside after the bushfire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#x2)
- The chimney sweep's face was blackened with soot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#x3)
- Dad cooked blackened chicken with spicy seasoning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#x4)
- Rotten bananas have blackened skins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#x5)
- Lies blackened the poor man's good name. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#x6)
- The old church walls were blackened by years of coal smoke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#x7)
- Slowly, very slowly, they blackened and turned to ashes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/#x8)

### Note

Blacken + -ed = blackened. A «blackened» name is figurative: it means a bad reputation, not black paint.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «blackened» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackened/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«blackened» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/blackened.html) on Mova free.