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BEDIMMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bedimmed mean?
• BEDIMMED (adjective)
The adjective BEDIMMED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BEDIMMED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made dim or indistinct
Context example:
a sun bedimmed by clouds
Similar:
indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)
Context examples
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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