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How to pronounce dark
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What does dark mean?
adjHaving an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
“The room was too dark for reading.”
Extinguished.
“Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.”
Deprived of sight; blind.
“He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.”
nounA complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
“Dark surrounds us completely.”
Ignorance.
“We kept him in the dark.”
Nightfall.
“It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.”
verbTo grow or become dark, darken.
To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
To make dark, darken; to obscure.
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