Synonyms of the word

blacken

• v. (ergative) (To cause) to be or become black.
• v. To make dirty.
• v. To defame or sully.
• v. To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
• v. (intransitive) To become black.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

burn

• n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
• n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
• n. The act of burning something.
• n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
• n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
• n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
• n. (Britain, chiefly prison slang) tobacco.
• n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
• n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
• v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
• v. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
• v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
• v. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
• v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
• v. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect…
• v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat;…
• v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
• v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
• v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To waste (time).
• v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
• v. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
• v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare…
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A stream.

char

• v. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
• v. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
• n. A charred substance.
• n. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
• n. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
• n. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
• n. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
• n. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
• v. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
• v. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
• v. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
• v. To work or hew (stone, etc.).
• n. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
• n. (Britain) Alternative form of cha.

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

discolor

• v. (American) To change or lose color.

discolour

• v. (British spelling, Canadian, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of discolor (US).

melanise

• v. Alternative form of melanize.

melanize

• v. To convert into melanin, or to deposit melanin in.

nigrify

• v. (transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken.

scorch

• n. A slight or surface burn.
• n. A discolouration caused by heat.
• n. (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.
• v. (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it.
• v. (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings…
• v. (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed.
• v. (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground).
• v. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.

sear

• adj. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
• v. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument.
• v. To wither; to dry up.
• v. (figuratively) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
• n. A scar produced by searing.
• n. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.