infuscate

From Latin infuscatus, past participle of infuscare; prefix in- (“in”) + fuscare (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”).

infuscate (third-person singular simple present infuscates, present participle infuscating, simple past and past participle infuscated)

1. (transitive) To darken; to make black or obscure.

infuscate (comparative more infuscate, superlative most infuscate)

1. (botany, zoology) Clouded with dark shades of brown or black.

• “infuscate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

īnfuscāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of īnfuscō