bedim

American  

[bih-dim] / bɪˈdɪm /

verb (used with object)

bedimmed, bedimming

1. to make dim; darken; obscure.

   Synonyms:

   muddle, shroud, overcast, becloud

   Antonyms:

   brighten, illumine

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bedim British  

/ bɪˈdɪm /

verb

1. (tr) to make dim or obscure

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Other Word Forms

• unbedimmed
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of bedim

First recorded in 1560–70; be- + dim

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

bedim bedimmed bedimming

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

Three moons have waned, and the Palmer, again, By Gertrude stands, and smileth fain; Nor of haste, nor of death, speaks the Palmer, now; Nor doth sadness or sorrow bedim his brow.

From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper

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

A rush of blood suffices at times to bedim a conscience.

From Fruitfulness by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

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

Indeed, my eyes were so bedimmed that I scarcely saw anything at all until we came around under the stern of a ship, when I heard the order ‘lay in your oars.’

From Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner by I. I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes

She was laid down upon its board in her poor bedimmed tunic, which once flashed so bright in the sun,—she who had been ever so delicate in her apparel.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

Here is another illustration: Those lovely eyes bedimmed, Those lovely eyes be dammed.

From Cupology How to Be Entertaining by Clara

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

Keen rushed the light In quivering splendor from the writhen flash; Strong though they were, intolerable smote Their orbs of sight, and with bedimming glare Scorched up their blasted vision.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson

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

But he thought also of the beauty of Maria, of the sweetness of her smile, and of the tears of voiceless gratitude which he had seen bedimming the lustre of her bright eyes.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by John Mackay Wilson

As cloth after cloth is removed, the light seems to grow brighter and stronger, and yet it has changed not, the change being in the removal of the confining and bedimming coverings.

From A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

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