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bedim

[bih-dim] / bɪˈdɪm /


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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

English sentiment began to bedim Gallic eyes, and so what we know as the Louis XVI style was born.

From The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe

I fain would know if, when I heave a sigh, Tears e'er bedim thy sympathetic eye?

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd

And all the world was bright with her through him: But dark with strife, Like heaven’s own sun that storming clouds bedim, Was all his life.

From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

Many have regarded it as the bedimmed relic of a brilliant primeval revelation.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

His later feeling for the religious in art is expressed in the now bedimmed paintings in San Salvatore in Venice.

From The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

The bright face fell, and tears again bedimmed the eyes.

From In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism by Gordon Stables

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

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

Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

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




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