swarten

From swart +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

swarten (third-person singular simple present swartens, present participle swartening, simple past and past participle swartened)

1. (transitive) to make swart, dark, or swarty; darken
   • 1814, Adolphe Thiers, Historical Works:

     Clad in rags, swartened by the sun, irritable, arrogant, and having at their head officers [...]

2. (intransitive) to become dark; darken

• netwars, strawen, strawne, wanters, warnest

From Old English sweartian, from Proto-Germanic *swartōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈswartən/

swarten

1. (intransitive, rare) To blacken or darken.

• English: swart

• “swarten (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-23.