bedim
Americanverb (used with object)
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The darkening cinematic mood that has engulfed even 007 won't be allowed to bedim the Dolby Theatre.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013
Ash and dust bedim the sky, blocking the sun's light.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
And all the world was bright with her through him: But dark with strife, Like heaven’s own sun that storming clouds bedim, Was all his life.
From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne
What though a few clouds bedim and deform "the innocent brightness of the new-born day?"
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
While hot tears bedim the vision Of dear friends who mourn his death, May they manifest decision By the wondrous power of Faith, In belief that those who sleep Safe in Jesus shall not weep.
From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd
She even transmitted a soupçon of the old glow to the bedimmed office of the presidency in the television series “24.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2010
What is so sad as a Kim bedimmed?
From Time Magazine Archive
Louise was a beautiful and interesting girl, and the bloom of nineteen summers blushed on her cheeks; but they were now pale, and her dark eyes were bedimmed with tears.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
She would probably be seen wandering at late night, with bedimmed stars and bedraggled gauze, until some vigorous officer should lead her to the station-house for vagrancy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
‘Can mortal sight, so oft bedimmed with tears, ‘Such glory bear?—for lo, the shadows fly ‘From Nature’s face; Confusion disappears, ‘And order charms the eyes, and harmony the ears.
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by James Beattie
The daylight from the street then entered in a lurid stream, bedimming the glare of lamps and candles.
From A Love Episode by Émile Zola
It is precisely those superstitions which hang about your mind like bedimming clouds, my Romola, that make one great reason why I could wish we were two hundred leagues from Florence.
From Romola by George Eliot
What business have we to prophesy bedimming tears to those resplendent eyes? or that the talisman of that witching smile can ever lose its magic?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
Mrs. Fairfax placed her hands upon their heads, tears bedimming her own eyes, and blessed them, and then kissed her daughter as she was about to leave the room.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
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