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DIMMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made dim or less bright
Example:
we like dimmed lights when we have dinner
Synonyms:
dim; dimmed
Classified under:
Similar:
low-beam (used of headlights)
Antonym:
undimmed (not made dim or less bright)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dim
Context examples:
Looking up, I, with tear-dimmed eyes, saw the mighty Milky- way.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The wind, which had fallen in the south, now rose with great violence in the west. The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He leaned his head back and closed his eyes; and like a child, crying, that forgets its grief in watching the sunlight percolate through the tear-dimmed films over the pupils, so Martin forgot his sickness, the presence of Ruth, everything, in watching the masses of vegetation, shot through hotly with sunshine that took form and blazed against this background of his eyelids.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
All this I did; and when at last I did see a turnkey (poor little fellow that I was!), and thought how, when Roderick Random was in a debtors' prison, there was a man there with nothing on him but an old rug, the turnkey swam before my dimmed eyes and my beating heart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Ordinarily grey and cold and harsh, they were now warm and soft and golden, and all a-dance with tiny lights that dimmed and faded, or welled up till the full orbs were flooded with a glowing radiance.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked—a tear of disappointment and impatience; ashamed of it, I wiped it away.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
