Pronunciations
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/bɪˈdɪm/
Verb
To make (something) dim; to darken, to obscure.
Usage- Transitive
- Examples
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I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous vvindes, / And tvvixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring vvarre: […]
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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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Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere,—if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.
Your voice is sad whene'er you speak / and tears bedim your loving eyes.
There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth […]
Verb
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
make unintelligible or unclear
- Examples
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The distinction was obscured