Definition of "bedim" [be•dim]

• To make dim. (verb-transitive)

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• "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."
• "English sentiment began to bedim Gallic eyes, and so what we know as the Louis XVI style was born."
• "Dirt, one would fancy, is plenty enough all over the world, being the symbolic accompaniment of the foul incrustation which began to settle over and bedim all earthly things as soon as Eve had bitten the apple; ever since which hapless epoch, her daughters have chiefly been engaged in a desperate and unavailing struggle to get rid of it."