Bedim

/bɪˈdɪm/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken..

Example Sentences

[…] by whose aid, / Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d / The noontide sun […]

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.

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 […]

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• bedims
• bedimming
• bedimmed

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