BEDIM (bedimmed, bedimming)

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Irregular inflected forms: bedimmed    , bedimming   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bedim mean? 

• BEDIM (verb)
  The verb BEDIM has 2 senses:

1. make darker and difficult to perceive by sight

2. make obscure or unclear

  Familiarity information: BEDIM used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEDIM (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bedim; benight

Hypernyms (to "bedim" is one way to...):

darken (make dark or darker)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make obscure or unclear

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bedim; obscure; overcloud

Context example:

The distinction was obscured

Hypernyms (to "bedim" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

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 me, and vanish.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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)