bedim
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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
From all his wild companions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
No less'ning ray Will e'er bedim thy natal morn, Or usher in the unhallowed day When we forget that thou wert born!
From The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems by George W. Doneghy
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.
From Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
Old Jock, for once at any rate, had had his weather eye bedimmed.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
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
Here is another illustration: Those lovely eyes bedimmed, Those lovely eyes be dammed.
From Cupology How to Be Entertaining by Clara
Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
There is not about Old Age one blessing more deserving gratitude to Heaven, than the gradual bedimming of memory brought on by years.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
The daylight from the street then entered in a lurid stream, bedimming the glare of lamps and candles.
From A Love Episode by Émile Zola
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
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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