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dimmen

dimmen verb: to become less bright; to dim.

Verb

dimmen (third-person singular simple present dimmens, present participle dimmening, simple past and past participle dimmened)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To become less bright; to dim.
    • BTW, if you are planning to tape, i would be careful. The security is being very tight. They are checking the sweet spot in the middle carefully, people in Buffalo got booted even before the lights dimmened. I think everyone in Rochester got nailed.1993 November 10, pau...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu, “syracuse grovel”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet)
    • On sunnier days—the air was steadily dimmening as the autumn progressed—Stephanie would take down an enormous iron key, big and heavy enough to bludgeon to death Professor Plum in the parlour, from the last hook on the coat-rack behind the front door, and we would cross the road and open the...2016, John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 164

Forms of dimmen

third-person singular presentdimmens
present participledimmening
past participledimmened
pastdimmened

Origin of dimmen

From dim + -en.

Questions about dimmen

What does dimmen mean?
Dimmen means to become less bright; to dim.
What part of speech is dimmen?
Dimmen is a verb.
What is the past tense of dimmen?
The past tense of dimmen is dimmened.

Words near dimmen in the dictionary

  1. dimly
  2. DIMM
  3. dimmability
  4. dimmable
  5. dimmed
  6. dimmen
  7. dimmened
  8. dimmening
  9. dimmens
  10. dimmer
  11. dimmer switch

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