Damage vs Blacken - What's the difference?

Damage is a related term of blacken.

is that damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction while blacken is to make black.

is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

(wikipedia damage)

Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

The storm did a lot of damage to the area.

* Francis Bacon

Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.

(slang) Cost or expense.

"What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.

(damag)

To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.

Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.

* Clarendon

He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.

(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