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  • adjective made dim or indistinct.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bedim.

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  • adjective made dim or indistinct

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Examples

  • He told one correspondent that “Henry A. can never be in the nature of things a very spacious or sympathetic companion and Mrs. A. strikes me as toned down and bedimmed from her ancient brilliancy.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • But as it proceeds, the clear vision that marks the early part of the Report gets bedimmed and the writers get entangled in the economic defences of the existing system.

    The Obstacle of Industrialism 2008

  • In they came, their eyes bedimmed with tears, and took their seats in all humility near the chair of the lady whom Paris the archer once wedded, one on this side, one on that, to right and left, with weapons on them; and both threw their suppliant arms round the knees of

    Orestes 2008

  • In they came, their eyes bedimmed with tears, and took their seats in all humility near the chair of the lady whom Paris the archer once wedded, one on this side, one on that, to right and left, with weapons on them; and both threw their suppliant arms round the knees of

    Orestes 2008

  • He told one correspondent that “Henry A. can never be in the nature of things a very spacious or sympathetic companion and Mrs. A. strikes me as toned down and bedimmed from her ancient brilliancy.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • You meet, for example, two or three Tradesmen in the street, whom you recognize at once to be Tradesmen by a glance at their angles and rapidly bedimmed sides, and you ask them to step into your house to lunch.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • I shook him warmly by the hand as a tear bedimmed his eye.

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • I shook him warmly by the hand as a tear bedimmed his eye.

    Burlesques 2006

  • And darting upon the paper, with eyes bedimmed, and voice choked with emotion, he read the whole document from the last letter to the first.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • With the aid of his spirits, Prospero has 'bedimmed/The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds,/And twixt the green sea and the azured vault/Set roaring war'.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

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