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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dwindle, die out |
| Synonyms: | abate, attenuate, clear, decline, deliquesce, deteriorate, die away, die on vine, dim, diminish, disappear, disperse, dissolve, droop, ebb, etiolate, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, fag out, fail, fall, flag, fold, hush, languish, lessen, melt, melt away, moderate, perish, peter out, poop out, quiet, rarefy, shrivel, sink, slack off, taper, thin, tire, tucker out, vanish, wane, waste away, weaken, wilt, wither |
| Antonyms: | enhance, improve, recover, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | go out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become extinguished |
| Synonyms: | become dark, burn out, cease, darken, die, die out, dim, expire, fade out, flicker, stop shining |
| Antonyms: | inflame |
| Main Entry: | mist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cloud, steam up |
| Synonyms: | becloud, befog, blur, dim, drizzle, film, fog, haze, mizzle, murk, obscure, overcast, overcloud, rain, shower, sprinkle, steam |
| Antonyms: | burn off, uncloud |
| Main Entry: | night |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of day after sundown and before sunrise |
| Synonyms: | after dark, after hours, bedtime, before dawn, black*, blackness, dark, dark hours, darkness, dead of night, dim, dusk to dawn, duskiness, evening, eventide, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttide, nighttime, obscurity*, pitch dark, twilight, witching hour |
| Antonyms: | day |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nightfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of darkness |
| Synonyms: | black*, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, eventide, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers |
| Antonyms: | daybreak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | obscure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal, hide |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, becloud, bedim, befog, belie, blear, blind, block, block out, blur, camouflage, cloak, cloud, cloud the issue, con, confuse, cover, cover up, darken, dim, disguise, double-talk, eclipse, equivocate, falsify, fog, fuzz, gloom, gray, haze, mask, misrepresent, mist, muddy, muddy the waters, murk, obfuscate, overcast, overcloud, overshadow, pettifog, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, stonewall, throw up smoke screen, veil, wrap |
| Antonyms: | illuminate, loose, reveal |
| Main Entry: | overshadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make obscure, dim, vague |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, becloud, bedim, cloud, command, darken, dim, dominate, dwarf, eclipse, excel, govern, haze, leave in the shade, obfuscate, outshine, outweigh, overcast, overcloud, overweigh, preponderate, rise above, rule, shadow, steal spotlight, surpass, take precedence, tower above, veil |
| Main Entry: | pale |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become, make lighter or weakened |
| Synonyms: | blanch, decrease, dim, diminish, dull, fade, faint, go white, grow dull, lessen, lose color, lose luster, muddy, tarnish, whiten |
| Notes: | a pail is a bucket while pale means whitish in complexion or very light colored |
| Antonyms: | brighten, darken, glow, radiate |
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shut out the light |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, be overcast, blacken, cast a shadow, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, conceal, cover, darken, deepen, dim, eclipse, gray, hide, inumbrate, mute, obscure, overshadow, protect, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shutter, tone down, umbrage, veil |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color hue is the quality of a color that makes it possible to call it bluish green, etc. (the color of a color); shade is a color variation having to do with the value of a hue (lightness or darkness), and tint is a pale variation of a color |
| Antonyms: | open |
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