Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To appear dark; show indistinctly.
- To become dark or gloomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To grow dark; to show indistinctly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To be
dark ; to be visible only darkly. - verb To become
dark ; to showindistinctly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You remember that darkle we had in the grenadier company?
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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Whom It quickens, let them darkle to extinction swift and sure.
A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry Various
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By it we have acquired many every-day words, among them, to accept (from acceptum), to exact (from exactum), to darkle (from darkling), and pea (from pease = pois).
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary Henry Louis 1921
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Say any dream of all the dreams that drift and darkle, glint and glow,
Dreams and Dust 1915
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A single hobgoblin bassoon croaks ludicrously away, the pixies darkle and flirt and dance their hearts out of them.
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Say any dream of all the dreams that drift and darkle, glint and glow,
Dreams and Dust Don Marquis 1907
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In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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In the fitful light darkle and gleam the swarthy-hued faces around them.
Legends of the Northwest Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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And her proud brow's blue veins to swell and darkle.
Don Juan George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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And her proud brow's blue veins to swell and darkle.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
reesetee commented on the word darkle
To become concealed, clouded, or gloomy. Back-formation of darkling.
February 16, 2007