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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dislimn.
  • adjective Deprived of an outline; made indistinct, hazy.

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Examples

  • "dislimned" and vanished; and on the following morning, were it not for their concurring testimonies, all would be disposed to take this interruption of their sleep for one of its most fantastic dreams.

    The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • The features of the visitor began to undergo a wonderful and lovely change: they brightened and softened with a tender triumph; and, even as they brightened, faded and dislimned.

    The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

  • The features of the visitor began to undergo a wonderful and lovely change: they brightened and softened with a tender triumph; and, even as they brightened, faded and dislimned.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • The features of the visitor began to undergo a wonderful and lovely change: they brightened and softened with a tender triumph; and, even as they brightened, faded and dislimned.

    Markheim 1907

  • She saw the figures of Ivery and the chauffeur in the front seat dark against the headlights, and then they dislimned into dreams.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • Its figures dislimned into things that have been, its noise did not thunder at my threshold.

    The Indian Lily and Other Stories Hermann Sudermann 1892

  • A reader of that memoir to-day will feel, with Swift, that literary reputations are dislimned and shifted as quickly and softly as the forms of clouds when the wind plays aloft.

    A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

  • The features of the visitor began to undergo a wonderful and lovely change: they brightened and softened with a tender triumph, and, even as they brightened, faded and dislimned.

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The features of the visitor began to undergo a wonderful and lovely change: they brightened and softened with a tender triumph, and, even as they brightened, faded and dislimned.

    Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) William Black 1869

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