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Dimmed   /dɪmd/   Listen
Dimmed

adjective
1.
Made dim or less bright.  Synonym: dim.  "Dimmed headlights" , "We like dimmed lights when we have dinner"


Dim

verb
(past & past part. dimmed; pres. part. dimming)
1.
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam.  Synonym: dip.
2.
Become dim or lusterless.
3.
Make dim or lusterless.
4.
Make dim by comparison or conceal.  Synonym: blind.
5.
Become vague or indistinct.  Synonyms: blur, slur.



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"Dimmed" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Kashmir have dimmed the memory of Simla for me; but I would not go there again, and in the season, for anything that ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... their gentle sleepy flock Looked up, then slept again, Nor knew the light that dimmed the stars Brought endless Peace to men— Nor even heard the gracious words That down the ages ring— The Christ is born! the Lord has come, Good-will on earth ...
— Christmas - Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse • Various
... flower-sprite flew through the dense shrubbery of a garden. The glory of it in the dimmed moonlight was beyond the power of mortal lips to say. An intoxicatingly sweet cool breath of dew and slumbering flowers transformed all things into unutterable blessings. The lilac grapes of the acacias sparkled in freshness, the June rose-tree looked ...
— The Adventures of Maya the Bee • Waldemar Bonsels
... of the sky could not be dimmed even by factory smoke, and the air was full of enticement, Nance slipped out at the noon hour, and, watching her chance, darted across the factory yard out through the stables, to the road beyond. A decrepit old elm-tree, which had evidently made heroic effort to keep tryst with the ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... shivering. Her poor old eyes, a little dimmed with tears, were directed southward toward the far-away vanishing-point of the rough and narrow road which meandered over the moor and ...
— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton


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