Слово "darken". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.

But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened...

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

Well, I must go in now; and you too: it darkens.”

He rested his glance on the upper floors, where the glass dazzlingly reflected the broken-up sun which was for ever departing from Mikhail Alexandrovich, then shifted it lower down to where the windows were beginning to darken before evening, smiled condescendingly at something, narrowed his eves, put his hands on the knob and his chin on his hands.

"- and Fred and George came up with this spell to make the scarves over our faces darken and blur, like we were undead kings and those were our grave shrouds -"

But don't you think anyhow, you'd be—' she darkened slightly—'in a better position than you are in now.'

And an ill day it was when first he darkened the threshold."

It was still not unheard of for an angry parent to cut off his son with a shilling or to tell his daughter (who like my own mother had married a solicitor) never to darken his doors again.