Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To obliterate the lines of; efface; disfigure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To efface, as a picture.

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  • verb transitive To efface.

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ limn

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  • transform

    March 28, 2009

  • That which is now a horse, even with a thought

    The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,

    As water is in water.

    Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, xii. 9.

    August 22, 2014