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bedim

verb
/bɪˈdɪm/

Etymology

From be- + dim.

  1. derived from *dʰem-✻
  2. derived from *dimmaz✻
  3. derived from *dimm✻
  4. derived from dim
  5. derived from dim
  6. prefixed as bedim — “be + dim”

Definitions

  1. To make dim

    To make dim; to obscure or darken.

    • […] by whose aid, / Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d / The noontide sun […]
    • Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA