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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
efface .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Features of this latter sort "dislimn" and yield, as the writing on palimpsests, to the regal majesty of the divine countenance, which none can look upon and smile.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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The plump man's features seemed to dislimn, and form again, as I looked at them.
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The plump man's features seemed to dislimn, and form again, as I looked at them.
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907
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And with that the landscape framed in the doorway began to waver and dislimn.
The Path of the King John Buchan 1907
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My face seemed to myself to dislimn under his gaze, my expression to change, the smile (with which I had began) to degenerate into the grin of the man upon the rack.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The plump man’s features seemed to dislimn, and form again, as I looked at them.
fbharjo commented on the word dislimn
transform
March 28, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word dislimn
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