Blacken vs Asperse - What's the difference?
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To make black.
To make dirty.
To defame or sully.
To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
To become black.
To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).
To falsely or maliciously charge another.
Blacken is a related term of asperse.
As verbs the difference between blacken and asperse
is that blacken is to make black while asperse is to sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).blacken
English
Verb
(en verb)- Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.