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I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.

—Frankenstein

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transitive verb To make dim.

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Then her face flushed, and a warm cloud seemed to bedim her eyes. — Wild Youth, Volume 1.
Cleansed from the vaporous passions which bedim — English Men of Letters: Coleridge
What tragic tears bedim the eye! — Old Mortality, Complete
Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim; — The Poems of Schiller — Third period
Tears, strange till then, his eyes bedim, — Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1

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from be- + dim.

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/bəˈdɪm/

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