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Bedim

verb
(past & past part. bedimmed; pres. part. bedimming)
1.
Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight.  Synonym: benight.
2.
Make obscure or unclear.  Synonyms: obscure, overcloud.






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"Bedim" Quotes from Famous Books



... such as the peasants of the country ate, but I will not doubt that it was set there by the spirits that I had invoked to aid me. 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 ...
— Frankenstein - or The Modern Prometheus • Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

... looked at her he was surprised by the extraordinary beauty transfiguring her face. This woman, invariably clad in black, extremely simple, with never a jewel, now appeared to him in all the brilliancy of her passion; no longer drawing back into the gloom, no longer seeking to bedim the lustre of her eyes, as was her wont. She, who at first sight did not seem pretty, but too dark and slender, with drawn features, a large mouth and long nose, assumed, as he now examined her, a troubling charm, ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... Fair lady looks out from her lattice—but why Do tears bedim that lady's eye? Below stands the knight who her favour wears, But be mounts not the turret to dry her tears; He springs on his charger—"Farewell;—he is gone, And the lady is left in her turret alone. "Ply the distaff, my ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XIX. No. 554, Saturday, June 30, 1832 • Various

... loves no heart to others iced, Nor erring flatteries which bedim Our glorious membership in Christ, Wherein all loving His, love Him. —M. ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

... Jutland. But Horwendil held the monarchy for three years, and then, to will the height of glory, devoted himself to roving. Then Koller, King of Norway, in rivalry of his great deeds and renown, deemed it would be a handsome deed if by his greater strength in arms he could bedim the far-famed glory of the rover; and cruising about the sea, he watched for Horwendil's fleet and came up with it. There was an island lying in the middle of the sea, which each of the rovers, bringing his ships up on either ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")



Words linked to "Bedim" :   darken, alter, change, modify



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