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Lower, as a light
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bedim
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. make difficult to perceive by sight; "The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake" [syn: obscure , benight ] make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured" [syn: obscure , overcloud ] [also: bedimming , bedimmed ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from be- + dim (adj.). Related: Bedimmed ; bedimming .
Usage examples of bedim.
It is sometimes intensive, as in bestir, and converts an adjective into a verb, as in bedim.
Thou dost possess a capacity for joyousness and for deep sorrow that bedims the torpid ardencies of others.
If the Federacy would attack this bedimmed colony and destroy it, Mari might be spared the consequences of their rashness, though he would die with the Shuhr.
Some shone like stars, and as the chariot passed Bedimmed all other light.
You meet, for example, two or three Tradesmen in the street, whom your recognize at once to be Tradesman by a glance at their angles and rapidly bedimmed sides, and you ask them to step into your house to lunch.
At the sound of the closing door she had glanced up, and then, at the sight of the king, she sprang to her feet and ran towards him, her hands out, her blue eyes bedimmed with tears, her whole beautiful figure softening into womanliness and humility.
William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of which human beings, nature, and even his beloved art had emerged bedimmed and bemired, less, other and uglier than themselves.
We should have started sterilizing those fringe systems the day we heard that bedimmed prophecy.
If the Federacy would attack this bedimmed colony and destroy it, Mari might be spared the consequences of their rashness, though he would die with the Shuhr.
Thou dost possess a capacity for joyousness and for deep sorrow that bedims the torpid ardencies of others.