a. - To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
a. - To render dim; to deprive of vision.
a. - To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
a. - To cast a gloom upon.
a. - To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
v. i. - To grow or darker.