Blackens vs Slackens - What's the difference?
blackens | slackens |
(blacken)
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.
(slacken)
To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
* 1908 ,
To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
* 1986 , Mari Sandoz, The Horsecatcher?
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.
As verbs the difference between blackens and slackens
is that blackens is (blacken) while slackens is (slacken).blackens
English
Verb
(head)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.
Synonyms
* (make black ): black, denigrate * (make dirty ): dirty, soil * (defame ): defame, denigrate, sully, taint, tarnishslackens
English
Verb
(head)slacken
English
Verb
(en verb)- The pace slackened .
- During this interlude, Warwick, though he had slackened his pace measurably, had so nearly closed the gap between himself and them as to hear the old woman say, with the dulcet negro intonation:...
- He seemed tired, and the Rat let him rest unquestioned, understanding something of what was in his thoughts; knowing, too, the value all animals attach at times to mere silent companionship, when the weary muscles slacken and the mind marks time.
- Elk slackened the rope so he could walk farther away, and together they went awkwardly up the trail toward the grassy little flat...
- to slack lime