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blackened
adjective black·ened \-kənd\
of food : coated with a mixture of hot spices and fried over very high heat
Full Definition of BLACKENED
: coated with a mixture of spices (as garlic powder and cayenne pepper) and fried over extremely high heat
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First Known Use of BLACKENED
1979
Related to BLACKENED
- Synonyms
- bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, black, dirty, cruddy, dingy, draggled, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smudged, smutty, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly
- Antonyms
- clean, cleanly, immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, ultraclean, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied
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