Thesaurus: dusk

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1. a. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
2. n. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
3. n. A darkish color.
4. v. t. To make dusk.
5. v. i. To grow dusk.
6. n. the time of day immediately following sunset
7. v. become dusk
8. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton. 1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. 2. A darkish color. Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. Dryden. To make dusk. [Archaic] After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. Holland. To grow dusk. [R.] Chaucer.
9. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black;dusky.A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.