DIMMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dimmed mean? 

• DIMMED (adjective)
  The adjective DIMMED has 1 sense:

1. made dim or less bright

  Familiarity information: DIMMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIMMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made dim or less bright

Synonyms:

dim; dimmed

Context example:

we like dimmed lights when we have dinner

Similar:

low-beam (used of headlights)

Antonym:

undimmed (not made dim or less bright)

 Context examples 

When a halt was made, they dropped down in the traces like dead dogs, and the spark dimmed and paled and seemed to go out.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Leah stood up in the window-seat, rubbing the panes of glass dimmed with smoke.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Something suspiciously akin to moistness dimmed her beautiful eyes before she dropped them and partly turned away her head.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Twenty Eight, I understood, was also a bright particular star; but it was his misfortune to have his glory a little dimmed by the extraordinary lustre of Twenty Seven.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It had all been so clear, if only my own sight had not been dimmed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he got out note-book and algebra and lost himself in quadratic equations, while the hours slipped by, and the stars dimmed, and the gray of dawn flooded against his window.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As he sank to the level of this opening, the light of the street, no longer dimmed by the dusty glass, fell full upon his face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And as even the memories dimmed and died in the darkness that fell upon him, he knew in her arms the fulfilment of all the ease and rest she had promised him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Warm tears filled my eyes, which I hastily wiped away, that they might not intercept the view I had of the dæmon; but still my sight was dimmed by the burning drops, until, giving way to the emotions that oppressed me, I wept aloud.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The sun had dimmed and faded out of sight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)