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
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 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
And there are toys for the girls and boys; And eyes that years bedim Grow strangely bright, with a youthful light, As they pluck from the pendant limb.
From Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg
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
Old Jock, for once at any rate, had had his weather eye bedimmed.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
Nor did these solemn eyes, bedimmed into a pathetic beauty, in any degree restrain the glee that sparkled in orbs that had as yet shed not many tears, but tears of joy or pity.
From Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse by Robert Haven Schauffler
Here is another illustration: Those lovely eyes bedimmed, Those lovely eyes be dammed.
From Cupology How to Be Entertaining by Clara
Mrs. Fairfax placed her hands upon their heads, tears bedimming her own eyes, and blessed them, and then kissed her daughter as she was about to leave the room.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
Queen Anaïtis was very beautiful, even under his bedimming shadow.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
But he thought also of the beauty of Maria, of the sweetness of her smile, and of the tears of voiceless gratitude which he had seen bedimming the lustre of her bright eyes.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII by John Mackay Wilson
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 Henry Harland
It is precisely those superstitions which hang about your mind like bedimming clouds, my Romola, that make one great reason why I could wish we were two hundred leagues from Florence.
From Romola by George Eliot
