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
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
A rush of blood suffices at times to bedim a conscience.
From Fruitfulness by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
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
Brock shone with a refulgence that bedimmed all expectations.
From The Husbands of Edith by George Barr McCutcheon
Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere,—if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity; with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
Down through the perfumed silences he hears Their eyelids fluttering: long fingers thrill, Probing a lassitude bedimmed with tears, While the nails crunch at every louse they kill.
From The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems by Aldous Huxley
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
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
Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.
From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon
Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
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
