Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation dimension
- abbreviation diminished
- abbreviation diminuendo
- abbreviation diminutive
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- adverb Abbreviation of
diminuendo .
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Examples
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I even said, "if you don't mind me saying so ..." after I called her dim. '
From the North... 2010
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Simply getting to this point is a victory of sorts, but Turkey's prospects for membership remain dim.
Calendar 2005
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Simply getting to this point is a victory of sorts, but Turkey's prospects for membership remain dim.
Calendar 2005
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Judging from the mishaps they have during the picture, I'd have said these little, yellow dudes were kind of dim.
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Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts 'content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are ... kind of dim.
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The blogosphere has been on fire with response and reaction to the gross generalizations and faulty science that Allen uses to justify her thesis that women are “kind of dim.”
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He looked behind him, saw no glimmer, reached inside for the light switch and turned it to "dim."
Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957
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Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts 'content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are ... kind of dim. "
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Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts’ content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.
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Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts’ content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.
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