LekhoriLekhoriTo cause to be or become black.
Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
From Middle English blaknen, blakkenen, equivalent to black + -en (verbal suffix).
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