Verb:

उदासी हो जाना, अंधा बनाना, चकाचौंध करना, अस्पष्ट करना, अंधकार करना, उदासी छाना, अंधेरा करना, काला करना, अंधेरा छाना, अंधा करना, कजलाना,

darkens's Usage Examples:

It melts at 427°, and darkens on exposure to air.

On exposure to light it rapidly darkens, a behaviour utilized in photography.

It consists essentially of cinnamic aldehyde, and by the absorption of oxygen as it becomes old it darkens in colour and develops resinous compounds.

On exposure to light the colour quickly darkens.

" If there is a reading of the new theories of evolution in nature which revives rather than darkens hope in immortality and faith in God, Tennyson gave an early sketch of that tentative modern theism.

Silk is readily distinguished from wool and other animal fibres by the action of an alkaline solution of oxide of lead, which darkens wool, 'c., owing to the sulphur they contain, but does not affect silk, which is free from that body.

The saturated aqueous solution is colourless and fumes strongly on exposure to air; after a time it darkens in colour owing to liberation of iodine.

The solid melts to a pale yellow liquid which on continued heating gradually darkens and becomes more viscous, the maximum viscosity occurring at 180°, the product being dark red in colour.

News, 1891, 63, p. 1); just above the boiling point the vapour is orange-yellow, but on continued heating it darkens, being deep red at 50o; at higher temperatures it lightens, becoming straw-yellow at 650°.

The supervisory lamp associated with the peg in the wanted subscriber's jack glows from the time that the peg is inserted until the subscriber responds, when it darkens, in which condition it remains until the subscriber restores the receiver to the hook and causes the lamp to light up again.

Synonyms:

black out, overcloud, cloud up, change, blacken out, dusk, cloud over,

Antonyms:

light, hopeful, strengthen, lighten, stay,