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DARKLING

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dark⋅ling

  [dahrk-ling]
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–adverb
1. in the dark.
–adjective
2. growing dark.
3. being or occurring in the dark; dark; obscure.
4. vaguely threatening or menacing.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME derkeling. See dark, -ling 2

dar⋅kle

  [dahr-kuhl]
–verb (used without object), -kled, -kling.
1. to appear dark; show indistinctly.
2. to grow dark, gloomy, etc.
Origin:
1790–1800; back formation from darkling, adv. taken as prp.
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dar·kle   (där'kəl)   
v.   dar·kled, dar·kling, dar·kles

v.   intr.

  1. To appear darkly or indistinctly.

    1. To grow dark.

    2. To become gloomy.

v.   tr.
To make dark or indistinct: "the dramatist . . . whose province it is to darkle and obscure" (London National Observer).

[Back-formation from darkling.]
dar·kling   (där'klĭng)   
adv.  In the dark.
adj.  

  1. Occurring or enacted in the dark.

  2. Dark; dim.

n.  The dark: "She carried some rugs for me through the shrubbery in the darkling" (H.G. Wells).
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