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nighten en · VERB

Etymology

From night + -en.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become night or grow dark, as night.
   • A dark place, a shadowed place, only a blot against the eternally nightened skies. 2014, Harlan Ellison, Paingod:
   • A flash of pretty fireworks in a nightening sky falling down, making the dry field catch fire. 2005, David White, The Hallucinogenic Rooster, page 163:
   • The flame of these smudge pots was just the type which presented itself in my vision, fluttering like a flag and giving off enough dark smoke to nighten the wooden sculpture above and around the flame. 1996, Frederick Kiesler, Siegfried Gohr, Gunda Luyken, Frederick J. Kiesler: selected writings, page 60:

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