bedim
/bɪˈdɪm/
bedim verb: to make (something) dim; to darken, to obscure.
Verb
bedim (third-person singular simple present bedims, present participle bedimming, simple past and past participle bedimmed)
- To make (something) dim; to darken, to obscure.
- I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous vvindes, / And tvvixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring vvarre: […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
- 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.1796 December 24–26 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, stanza IX...
bedim meaning in Urdu
bedim in Urdu
- اندھیرا کرنا, دھندلانا
Examples of bedim in a sentence
- 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.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III...
- 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.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “The Gifted”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown...
- Your voice is sad whene'er you speak / and tears bedim your loving eyes.1875, Thomas Payne Westendorf, “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen”:
- There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth […]1905, James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository Times, volume XVI:
Forms of bedim
| third-person singular present | bedims |
|---|---|
| present participle | bedimming |
| past participle | bedimmed |
| past | bedimmed |
Origin of bedim
From be- + dim.
Words formed from bedim
Words that rhyme with bedim
Questions about bedim
- What does bedim mean?
- Bedim means to make (something) dim; to darken, to obscure.
- What is bedim in Urdu?
- Bedim in Urdu is اندھیرا کرنا, دھندلانا. See Bedim meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use bedim in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is bedim?
- Bedim is a verb.
- How do you pronounce bedim?
- Bedim is pronounced /bɪˈdɪm/.
- What is the past tense of bedim?
- The past tense of bedim is bedimmed.
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