endarken

发音

US /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/
UK /ɪnˈdɑːkən/
UK /ɛnˈdɑːkən/

词形变化

endarkened endarkening endarkens 三单 endarkens endarkening 现在分词 endarkened 过去式 endarkened 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To render dark or darker.

    文学 罕用 及物

    […] moral education cannot be […] purely enlightened and enlightening […] it cannot be simply a matter of teaching [people] to calculate the long term profit and the loss, while leaving […] desires to develop independently. It must involve an endarkened and endarkening component, by which [people] are taught precisely to cease [their] calculations, to regard certain paths as forbidden, as places where neither profit nor loss has authority.

  2. 2.

    To becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound.

    文学 及物

词源

From en- + darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten.

来源：wiktionary