bedim

Definition

To make dim; to obscure or darken.

Etymology

From be- + dim.

Example Sentences

• "[…] by whose aid, / Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d / The noontide sun […]"
• "Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim."
• "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."