Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
To grow or become dark, darken.
To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
A surname.
From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc, from Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“dim, dull”), from Proto-Indo-European *d...
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To make dark, darken; to obscure.