nighten
verbEtymology From night + -en.
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To become night or grow dark, as night.
- The flame of these smudge pots was just the type which presented itself in my vision, fluttering like a flag and giving off enough dark smoke to nighten the wooden sculpture above and around the flame.1996, Frederick Kiesler, Siegfried Gohr, Gunda Luyken, Frederick J. Kiesler: selected writings, page 60:
- A flash of pretty fireworks in a nightening sky falling down, making the dry field catch fire.2005, David White, The Hallucinogenic Rooster, page 163:
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- A dark place, a shadowed place, only a blot against the eternally nightened skies.2014, Harlan Ellison, Paingod: