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undim

undim verb: to make no longer dim; to brighten or illuminate.

Verb

undim (third-person singular simple present undims, present participle undimming, simple past and past participle undimmed)

  1. (rare, transitive) To make no longer dim; to brighten or illuminate.
    • […] with a light yearning to undim the blackness of a cross there in the mud.2002, Albino Pierro, Luigi Bonaffini, Selected Poems, page 131

Forms of undim

third-person singular presentundims
present participleundimming
past participleundimmed
pastundimmed

Origin of undim

From un- + dim.

Questions about undim

What does undim mean?
Undim means to make no longer dim; to brighten or illuminate.
What part of speech is undim?
Undim is a verb.
What is the past tense of undim?
The past tense of undim is undimmed.

Words near undim in the dictionary

  1. Undillian
  2. undilute
  3. undiluted
  4. undilutedly
  5. undilution
  6. undim
  7. undimensioned
  8. undimerized
  9. undimidiate
  10. undiminishable
  11. undiminishableness

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