Darken vs Deepen - What's the difference?
darken | deepen |
To make dark or darker by reducing light.
* Bible, Exodus x. 15
To become dark or darker (having less light).
To make dark or darker in colour.
To become dark or darker in colour.
To render gloomy, darker in mood
* Shakespeare
To become gloomy, darker in mood
To blind, impair eyesight
* Bible, Rom xi. 10
To be blinded, loose clear vision
To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
* Bible, Job xxxviii. 2
* Francis Bacon
To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
* Shakespeare
To make deep or deeper
To make darker or more intense; to darken
To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
To make lower in tone
To become deeper
To become darker or more intense
To become lower in tone
In intransitive terms the difference between darken and deepen
is that darken is to be blinded, loose clear vision while deepen is to become lower in tone.As verbs the difference between darken and deepen
is that darken is to make dark or darker by reducing light while deepen is to make deep or deeper.darken
English
Verb
(en verb)- They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened .
- With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not / The mirth of the feast.
- Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see.
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darken his foresight.
- I must not think there are / Evils enough to darken all his goodness.
Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Derived terms
* darkener * darken someone's doorSynonyms
* blackenAnagrams
* * * * * English ergative verbsdeepen
English
Verb
(en verb)- They deepened the well by 200 feet.
- The event deepened the prevailing gloom.
- News of her death deepened my sorrow.
- The tuner deepened the tone of the organ.
- The water deepens as you go toward the middle of the channel.
- The crisis deepened in the following weeks.
- His voice deepened with age.