Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make dim.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make dim; obscure or darken; becloud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make dim; to obscure or darken.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
dim ; toobscure or darken.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make obscure or unclear
- verb make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
Etymologies
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Examples
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
Chapter 7 2010
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
Chapter 24 2010
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.
Frankenstein 2003
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Dirt, one would fancy, is plenty enough all over the world, being the symbolic accompaniment of the foul incrustation which began to settle over and bedim all earthly things as soon as Eve had bitten the apple; ever since which hapless epoch, her daughters have chiefly been engaged in a desperate and unavailing struggle to get rid of it.
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English sentiment began to bedim Gallic eyes, and so what we know as the Louis XVI style was born.
The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe
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Nothing was too much trouble for her to do in the way of helping us, and oftentimes tears would bedim her eyes as she looked at me and baby, who always laughed at her; perhaps thinking of her loneliness after we were gone, perhaps of the possibility of our not returning to Tankar, and even of the uncertainty of life in the far interior.
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In other words, astral and physical darkness bedim the soul's spiritual sight, and, leaving the realms of innocence and bliss, they sink into the vortex of the great astral world.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars 1900
bilby commented on the word bedim
Word or sound effect? We ought to have a list not so much of onomatopoeics but of words more abstractly beatboxable.
January 9, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word bedim
We ought to bebrite & right (see bedim)
January 9, 2013