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Bedim   Listen
verb
Bedim  v. t.  (past & past part. bedimmed; pres. part. bedimming)  To make dim; to obscure or darken.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bedim" Quotes from Famous Books



... was, indeed, coarse, such as the peasants of the country ate, but I will not doubt that it was set there by the spirits that I had invoked to aid me. 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 ...
— Frankenstein - or The Modern Prometheus • Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

... who will not raise His hands in prayer, among the danger-days That come to all; for he, when waxen old, Will search the past and find it callous-cold; And all the future, too, will freeze for him. Nor shall he weep aright when tears bedim His desperate, doleful eyes that know not faith; And he shall hear no chants ...
— A Lover's Litanies • Eric Mackay



Words linked to "Bedim" :   change, darken, overcloud, modify, obscure



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