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bedarken en · VERB

Pronunciation

• bĭdärʹkn (Received-Pronunciation)
• /bɪˈdɑːkn̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épider. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi Proto-Germanic *bider. Proto-Germanic *bi- Proto-West Germanic *bi- Old English be- Middle English bi- English be- English darken English bedarken From be- + darken.

Meanings

1. To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.
   • 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. 1962, Joseph Gies, Adventure Underground: Tunnels, page 260:
   • #*: for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous 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):

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