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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: darkened by smoke; "blackened rafters"
2: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1979 coated with a mixture of spices (as garlic powder and cayenne pepper) and fried over extremely high heat <blackened swordfish>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blacken Black"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackened; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackening.] [See Black, a., and cf. Black, v. t. ] 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. --Pope. 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. ``Blackened the whole heavens.'' --South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character. Syn: To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse.