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BEDIM (bedimmed, bedimming)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bedim mean?
• BEDIM (verb)
The verb BEDIM has 2 senses:
1. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
Familiarity information: BEDIM used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
bedim; benight
Hypernyms (to "bedim" is one way to...):
darken (make dark or darker)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make obscure or unclear
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
The distinction was obscured
Hypernyms (to "bedim" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
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.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Edricson, quoth Sir Nigel, you have young eyes, and mine are somewhat bedimmed.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And with them rose the cloud which had hung over the country; and it also thinned and thinned, until God’s own sun of peace and security was shining once more upon us, never more, we hope, to be bedimmed.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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