Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To obliterate the lines of; efface; disfigure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To efface, as a picture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
efface .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Features of this latter sort "dislimn" and yield, as the writing on palimpsests, to the regal majesty of the divine countenance, which none can look upon and smile.
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The plump man's features seemed to dislimn, and form again, as I looked at them.
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The plump man's features seemed to dislimn, and form again, as I looked at them.
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And with that the landscape framed in the doorway began to waver and dislimn.
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My face seemed to myself to dislimn under his gaze, my expression to change, the smile (with which I had began) to degenerate into the grin of the man upon the rack.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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The plump man’s features seemed to dislimn, and form again, as I looked at them.
fbharjo commented on the word dislimn
transform
March 28, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word dislimn
That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,
As water is in water.
Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, xii. 9.
August 22, 2014