(v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
(v. i.) To grow black or dark.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of each session, he is forced to don a pair of blackened goggles, ear muffs are placed over his head, and he is ordered to place the palms of his hands together so that a guard can grasp his thumbs to lead him away.
(2) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the influence of various storing principles, film speed, and distance from X-ray source upon the degree of film blackening.
(3) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
(4) The only reminder of what happened is a small, blackened, crater near the northern part of town, where a rocket laced with a nerve agent fell, killing more than 70 people in one of the worst mass casualty chemical attacks in the six-year war in Syria .
(5) People brought flowers, and large piles of roses, lilac, tulips and carnations lay by the blackened doors.
(6) Quantitative evaluation of the autoradiographs is achieved by careful calibration of the X-ray film blackening.
(7) Addition of xylose (4.0 g) and L-lysine hydrochloride (5.4 g) to the above formulation improved differentiation between Salmonella and the few Citrobacter strains that grew and produced more intense blackening in Salmonella colonies.
(8) The Spanish classic arroz negro pays homage to both old country and new: instead of the standard squid ink and fish stock, it’s made with crab bisque and chilmole (the blackened chilli sauce of the Yucatán) and crowned with calamari stuffed with pork scratchings.
(9) In animals given the drug alone, there was dermatitis and blackening of the skin and hair, serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase and serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase enzymes were significantly increased, and liver biopsy revealed diffuse cytoplasmic swelling and granulation of the hepatocytes.
(10) Nine screen-film combinations were exposed at 70 to 80 kv., using a 12-pulse generator and Bucky grid till blackening of S = 1 was obtained.
(11) The ability to recognise detail related to detail size, film blackening and exposure geometry was studied for various systems, and the quality profiles are discussed.
(12) He was knocked to the ground with a rifle butt, which blackened his left eye.
(13) 12 patients showed isolated mucosal inflammation, 5 blackish deposits (of impacted soot) and blisters in 6 (with shreds of mucosa hanging loose); the endoscopy was normal in 18; 66% of those with blisters (4 cases out of 6) and 40% with blackened mucosa (2 cases out of 5) were observed in burns from fires.
(14) Other anaerobes, Enterobacteriaceae, and enterococci either failed to grow on BBE agar or did not produce the characteristic morphology and blackening associated with isolates of the B. fragilis group.
(15) But those crows also gather on the blackened rafters of British-era bungalows, while tanks and artillery pieces on which the wealth of a poor nation was squandered for decades sit rusting on hilltops.
(16) Whole-body autoradiography, combined with densitometric measurement of the blackening of the autoradiograms, and liquid scintillation counting were used to determine the levels of radioactivity in the inner ear in relation to blood and other tissues.
(17) Another selection strategy performed by the instrument involves growing the cells on a thin, blackened polyester film which can be cut by the argon laser beam.
(18) We describe a typical case with photographs demonstrating multiple blackened hyperkeratotic lesions of the palmar aspects of the fingers and palm, some linear, some circular.
(19) And yet, comparing British casualty rates with those of France, Germany and Italy, Haig's reputation looks to have been disproportionately blackened.
(20) Such inexpensive devices are cost effective alternatives to blackened surgical instruments.
Sully
Definition:
(v. t.) To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.
(v. i.) To become soiled or tarnished.
(n.) Soil; tarnish; stain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
(2) His Glasgow adventure was ultimately sullied by bad results and bad relations with several players - the very same problems that have beset Lacombe at PSG.
(3) Those two incidents alone have landed Suárez with suspensions totalling 18 games but the Uruguayan claims it is the press who have sullied his image.
(4) Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights organisation Stonewall, said: "We do think it's very sad that an archbishop should sully the day of the birth of Jesus by making what seem to be such uncharitable observations about other people.
(5) He later thanked those who had stood by him during the attempts to "sully" his reputation.
(6) Beset by problems and sullied by corruption allegations, Sepp Blatter will stand next week before his dysfunctional "Fifa family", ahead of the World Cup, and announce plans to stand for election as president of football's world governing body for four more years.
(7) It'll be pretty amazing if Barça keep a clean sheet here even without Ronaldo trying to sully them.
(8) And to help promote this thoroughly anti-democratic measure, the junta has enlisted the judiciary, sullying the very bedrock of democracy.” The prospect of Prayuth’s dictatorial rule being extended indefinitely is not one that is welcomed in Washington.
(9) The biggest technology companies don't sully themselves with creating content: Google generates none (except Street View); nor does Microsoft , or Facebook, or Twitter.
(10) Saturday's The violence is yet another chapter in an ongoing, years-long battle between those who support Thaksin, a former telecoms tycoon who won voting support from northern and northeastern provinces for his populist policies such as universal healthcare and rice-subsidy schemes, and those who believe him to be nothing more than a corrupt businessman who sullied Thailand's politics.
(11) With at least one federal investigation under way and mounting calls for reform on all sides, Escalante is in the unenviable position of keeping clean in a system that appears more sullied each day.
(12) The charge sheet was stunning: "He has corrupted his hands and sullied his government with bribes," declaimed Burke in his opening speech to the hearing.
(13) "I think this film should not go out; it was too sullied," Kechiche told Telerama, adding that the allegations against him had left him feeling "humiliated, disgraced.
(14) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
(15) And above all of us, night and day, in weather fair or foul, with its plume of driven snow streaming tremendously from its summit, the great mountain itself looked down on us benignly – for not a soul was lost, nor a reputation sullied, on that happiest of adventures.
(16) To wallow in it would be fun but sullying, and also obscures the fact that Simmonds has done us a favour.
(17) 88 min: Barcelona stroke the ball around the edge of the Inter penalty, before Dani Alves goes down under a challenge from Sully Muntari while trying to run on to a through-ball from Messi.
(18) It is of grave concern to see its reputation sullied before the facts are known."
(19) Williamson said: “Construction firms’ optimism in relation to the outlook fell to the lowest for nearly a year in September, sullied by concerns over a slowing housing market, shortages of both skilled labour and suitable subcontractors, higher interest rates and a general weakening of growth in the wider economy.” He said the 0.9% growth in GDP achieved in the second quarter could be the peak.
(20) Inside Sully’s, a popular bar across from the Carrier plant, David Parliament, a Carrier worker for three decades, said he favored Trump over Clinton because “he’s not a politician, he’s a businessman”.