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
Nor shall he weep aright when tears bedim His desperate, doleful eyes that know not faith; And he shall hear no chants of cherubim.
From A Lover's Litanies by Eric Mackay
A Fair lady looks out from her lattice—but why Do tears bedim that lady's eye?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various
No men have done more to bedim the reputation of Washington, than Jefferson and Randolph.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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
The man behind the dead horse lifted himself and strained his bedimmed eyes, seeing the youthful rider shoot past in pursuit of the savages.
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish
But tears bedimmed her blue eyes, and a word of sympathy would have caused her to burst into a fit of weeping that would probably have been hysterical in its nature.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
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
Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.
From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon
It seemed as if never so thin a gauze had been drawn over the face of the sun, just faintly bedimming, without obscuring it.
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Henry Harland
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
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
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
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