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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedim.

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Examples

  • The tear which bedims my eye is an evidence of the sincerity with which I subscribe myself your affectionate friend,

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

  • Like the ashen-grey hue that bedims the countenance of the dying, a filmy greasy skin appeared to overspread the recent loveliness of the ocean surface.

    Through the Magic Door Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1907

  • Like the ashen-grey hue that bedims the countenance of the dying,

    Through the Magic Door Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • A breath of New England air touches the cathedral windows of the Old World, and -- I had almost said -- bedims them with a film of evanescent frost-work; yet, as that lingers, we suddenly discern through the veil a charm, a legendary fascination in their deep-gemmed gorgeousness, which, although we have felt it and read of it before, we never seized till now.

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

  • The tear which bedims my eye, is an evidence of the sincerity with which I subscribe myself

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • The tear which bedims my eye, is an evidence of the sincerity with which I subscribe myself

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

  • A breath of New England air touches the cathedral windows of the Old World, and ” I had almost said ” bedims them with a film of evanescent frost-work; yet, as that lingers, we suddenly discern through the veil a charm, a legendary fascination in their deep-gemmed gorgeousness, which, although we have felt it and read of it before, we never seized till now.

    A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

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