verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
name
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Suppose Everett was murdered to prevent him blackening the name of a fellow Breakspearean.
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Something that will utterly blacken my name in your eyes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A few people, their faces blackened by the smoke, ran out of the building.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He blackened one eye, left scratches up and down her neck and scraped the flesh off her hipbones.
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His name blackened, his writings neglected, for two decades Nizan was allotted the role of loser.
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It was distorted and blackened by the heat, but Charles knew immediately what it was.
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Now that they stood in the light, Jehan could see that both of them were blackened by grime and oil.
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So we sat hunched at our desks, blackening out the story and accompanying pictures.
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The man looked into her eyes, now blackened, and into her sutured face.
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Twisted, blackened corpses lie side-by-side on a cold-looking concrete floor.