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Disparage vs Blacken - What's the difference?

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Disparage is a related term of blacken.


As verbs the difference between disparage and blacken

is that disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor while blacken is to make black.

As a noun disparage

is (obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

disparage

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
    • But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […].

    Verb

    (disparag)
  • To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
  • To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
  • * Bishop Atterbury
    • those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
  • * Milton
    • Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
  • To ridicule, mock, discredit.

    • See also

    * vilipend * belittle * denigrate * excoriate

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    blacken

    English

    Verb

    (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.

    Synonyms

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