sombre
murken
obfuscate
tenebrize
dark
overdarken
shaden
bedim
gloom
embrown
murk
bedarken
obscure
infuscate
darken
overlighten
blear
endarken
melanorite
cloud
blind
adumbral
begloom
darkle
dull
dusken
swarten
hazen
dim
opaquen
scowl
backstair
refine
furtive
backstairs
embrowned
phantasmal
illumine
obfuscous
umbratic
blur
alighten
pitch
shadiness
mirky
darksome
muzz
bedarkened
murky
shadow
sketch out
flare
occultate
deepen
mysterize
swarthy
opacify
blackly
illuminate
greyen
mirken
umbrally
miscolour
very-light
Manichaean
twilit
shed light on
dusky
twilight
visualise
diaphane
vaguen
ignite
haze
exoticize
obumbrate
fog
overclear
darkness
darkeningly
light
eclipse
inkily
shady
vesperate
duskly
opacating
adumbral
backstair
furtive
backstairs
embrowned
phantasmal
obfuscous
umbratic
mirky
darksome
bedarkened
murky
sombre
swarthy
very-light
Manichaean
twilit
dusky
twilight
light
shady
opacating
blackly
umbrally
darkeningly
inkily
duskly
melanorite
murk
shadiness
diaphane
darkness
sombre
murken
obfuscate
tenebrize
dark
overdarken
shaden
bedim
gloom
embrown
murk
bedarken
obscure
infuscate
darken
overlighten
blear
endarken
cloud
blind
begloom
darkle
dull
dusken
swarten
hazen
dim
opaquen
scowl
refine
illumine
blur
alighten
pitch
muzz
shadow
sketch out
flare
occultate
deepen
mysterize
opacify
illuminate
greyen
mirken
miscolour
shed light on
visualise
vaguen
ignite
haze
exoticize
obumbrate
fog
overclear
light
eclipse
vesperate
verb
- To make dark, darken; to obscure.
- To grow or become dark, darken.
- To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
adj
- Off the air; not transmitting.
- Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
- With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
- Deprived of sight; blind.
- Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
- Having racing capability not widely known.
- Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
- Lacking progress in science or the arts.
- Extinguished.
- Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
noun
noun
verb
- To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- To make less acute or perceptive.
- To make gloomy or sullen.
- To make obscure.
- To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
noun
- Crystal methamphetamine.
- A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
verb
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
noun
- A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- Any device intended to conceal or hide.
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
- No score.
- The blindside.
- A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- A hiding place.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A blindage.
adj
- Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- Uncircumcised
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- Smallest or slightest.
- Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
- Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.
- Without any prior knowledge.
- Of a place, having little or no visibility.
- Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
adv
adj
verb
- To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
- To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
- To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
adj
- Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
- Insensible; unfeeling.
- Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
- Sluggish, listless.
- Boring; not exciting or interesting.
- Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
- Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
- Cloudy, overcast.
- Heavy; lifeless; inert.
- Not clear, muffled.
verb
- To shine light on (something).
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To enlighten intellectually.
- To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To become bright; to light up.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
verb
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
verb
- To shade, cloud, or darken.
- To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
- To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
- To hide; to conceal.
- To represent faintly and imperfectly.
- To block light or radio transmission from.
- To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
adj
- Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.
- Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
- Part of, or related to, the opposition in government.
- Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized.
noun
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- A small degree; a shade.
- An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
- That which looms as though a shadow.
- A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- An inseparable companion.
- A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
- A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- An unconscious aspect of the personality.
- A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- An imperfect and faint representation.
verb
- To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
- To open outward in shape.
- To blaze brightly.
- To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- To suddenly happen or intensify.
- To suddenly erupt in anger.
- To cause inflammation; to inflame.
noun
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- Bell-bottom trousers.
- The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- A sudden bright light.
verb
- To make darker or more intense; to darken
- To make deep or deeper
- To make more sound or heavy.
- To become lower in tone
- To become deeper
- To become more intimate.
- To make lower in tone
- To become darker or more intense
- To become more thorough or extensive.
- To make more thorough or extensive.
- To become more sound or heavy.
- To make more intimate.
- To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
verb
verb
verb
- To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.
- To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.
- To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
- To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.
- In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.
noun
- Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.)
- An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
- A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
- Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
- The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
verb
- To make dim or obscure.
- To become obscured in condensation or water.
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- To cover with or as if with fog.
- To obscure in condensation or water.
- To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- To become dim or obscure.
- To make confusing or obscure.
- To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- To become covered with or as if with fog.
- To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
noun
- A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- Distance fog.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- A mist or film clouding a surface.
- Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. (Compare mist, haze.)
- Moss.
noun
- The product of being dark.
- Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
- Secrecy; concealment.
- Gloom; gloominess; depression.
- The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
- Hell.
- The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
- Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
adv
adj
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- With low viscosity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- Served with extra milk or cream.
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
verb
- To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- To start (a fire).
- To become ignited; to take fire.
- To set fire to; to set burning.
- To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To find by chance.
adv
noun
- A low-alcohol lager.
- A source of illumination.
- A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- A cigarette lighter.
- The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler who is receiving instructions.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.
- The power of perception by vision.
verb
- To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
- Of astronomical or atmospheric bodies, to cause an eclipse.
- To undergo eclipsis.
noun
- An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
- Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
- A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.
- Obscurity, decline, downfall.
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