darkle

[ dahr-kuhl ]

verb (used without object)

, dar·kled, dar·kling.

1. to appear dark; show indistinctly.
2. to grow dark, gloomy, etc.

darkle

/ ˈdɑːkəl /

verb

1. to grow dark; darken
2. intr to appear dark or indistinct

Word History and Origins

Origin of darkle¹

1790–1800; back formation from darkling, adv. taken as present participle

Word History and Origins

Origin of darkle¹

C19: back formation from darkling

Example Sentences

From him that dream of transport flows, Which sweet intoxication knows; With him, the brow forgets to darkle, And brilliant graces learn to sparkle.

From Project Gutenberg

There are desolate wastes of cat-briers and witch-hopple under leprous tangles of grey birches, where stealthy little brooks darkle deep under matted d�bris.

From Project Gutenberg

Where a fallen sycamore Whitely arches a pathway o'er, And shadows darkle The lambent cool, As, softly a-sparkle.

From Project Gutenberg

Darkling.—This is no participle of a verb darkle, but an adverb of derivation, like unwaring�n = unawares, Old High German; stillinge = secretly, Middle High German; blindlings = blindly, New High German; darnungo = secretly, Old Saxon; nichtinge = by night, Middle Dutch; blindeling = blindly, New Dutch; b�clinga = backwards, handlunga = hand to hand, Anglo-Saxon; and, finally, blindlins, backlins, darklins, middlins, scantlins, stridelins, stowlins, in Lowland Scotch.

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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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