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/blæk/
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  1. verb
    make or become black
    "The smoke blackened the ceiling" "The ceiling blackened"

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    blacken melanise melanize
  2. noun
    popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

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    shirley temple shirley temple black
  3. adjective
    (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
    "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"

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    disgraceful ignominious inglorious opprobrious shameful dishonourable dishonorable
  4. noun
    the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

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    blackness inkiness
    Opposite:
    white
  5. adjective
    extremely dark
    "a black moonless night" "through the pitch-black woods"

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    pitch-black pitch-dark dark
  6. noun
    British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

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    joseph black
  7. adjective
    stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
    "black deeds" "a black lie" "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"

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    dark sinister evil
  8. adjective
    (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
    "a face black with fury"

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    blackened colored colorful coloured
  9. adjective
    soiled with dirt or soot
    "with feet black from playing outdoors" "his shirt was black within an hour"

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    smutty dirty unclean soiled
  10. adjective
    distributed or sold illicitly
    "the black economy pays no taxes"

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    black-market bootleg contraband smuggled illegal
  11. noun
    total absence of light
    "in the black of night"

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    blackness lightlessness pitch blackness total darkness
    type of:
    darkness dark
  12. adjective
    offering little or no hope
    "the future looked black"

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    bleak dim hopeless
  13. adjective
    (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

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    calamitous disastrous fatal fateful unfortunate
  14. noun
    a person with African ancestry,

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    african-american negro negroid
  15. adjective
    harshly ironic or sinister
    "black humor"

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    grim mordant sarcastic
  16. adjective
    being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
    "black leather jackets" "as black as coal" "rich black soil"
    Opposite:
    white
  17. noun
    black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
    "the widow wore black"
  18. noun
    (board games) the darker pieces
    Opposite:
    white
    type of:
    man piece
  19. adjective
    marked by anger or resentment or hostility
    "black looks" "black words"

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    angry
  20. adjective
    (of coffee) without cream or sugar

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    undiluted
  21. adjective
    (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
    "black propaganda"

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    covert
  22. adjective
    of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
    "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"

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    african-american afro-american negro coloured colored
    Opposite:
    white
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