bedim
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The darkening cinematic mood that has engulfed even 007 won't be allowed to bedim the Dolby Theatre.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2013
Ash and dust bedim the sky, blocking the sun's light.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
What though a few clouds bedim and deform "the innocent brightness of the new-born day?"
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
From all his wild companions flown; Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; He wanders all alone.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
A rush of blood suffices at times to bedim a conscience.
From Fruitfulness by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
She even transmitted a soupçon of the old glow to the bedimmed office of the presidency in the television series “24.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2010
What is so sad as a Kim bedimmed?
From Time Magazine Archive
The warm darkness had no relief for him, and Miriam's histrionic hardness flung him back against a fifth-rate world, against a bedimmed, star-punctured nature which had no consolation—the bleared, irresponsive eyes of the London firmament.
From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry
On that fateful morning, poor Madge, her pretty eyes all bedimmed with tears, and her lips tremulous, was with her sisters and mother in the rooms in Bruton Street; the gentlemen only attended the Court.
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William
But tears bedimmed her blue eyes, and a word of sympathy would have caused her to burst into a fit of weeping that would probably have been hysterical in its nature.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon
What business have we to prophesy bedimming tears to those resplendent eyes? or that the talisman of that witching smile can ever lose its magic?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
Keen rushed the light In quivering splendor from the writhen flash; Strong though they were, intolerable smote Their orbs of sight, and with bedimming glare Scorched up their blasted vision.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius
Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch
It seemed as if never so thin a gauze had been drawn over the face of the sun, just faintly bedimming, without obscuring it.
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Harland, Henry
Percival was suddenly conscious of a mist bedimming his eyes.
From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr
