Blacken vs Bracken - What's the difference?

As a verb blacken

is to make black.

(en verb)

To make black.

To make dirty.

To defame or sully.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men. — Napoleon Bonaparte

To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.

To become black.

The sky blackened as the storm clouds rolled in.

* (make black ): black, denigrate * (make dirty ): dirty, soil * (defame ): defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnish

(wikipedia bracken)

(en-noun)

(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of genus Pteridium , that forms dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.

(uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.