blacken

Where her washer and dryer once stood, Robinson found only a blackened metal frame.

The blackened shell of a school bus sat on an empty street.

Once-white collection nets came up blackened with soot and charred detritus.

We eventually got to the base of Little Round Top, named after a famous Civil War battle, and looked down at a devastated Altadena of blackened trees and leveled properties.

Robinson walked to a blackened tree where he had nailed up a cymbal Elliott had given him.