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Dimmed   /dɪmd/   Listen
Dimmed

adjective
1.
Made dim or less bright.  Synonym: dim.  "Dimmed headlights" , "We like dimmed lights when we have dinner"  Antonym: undimmed.


Dim

verb
(past & past part. dimmed; pres. part. dimming)
1.
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam.  Synonym: dip.
2.
Become dim or lusterless.
3.
Make dim or lusterless.
4.
Make dim by comparison or conceal.  Synonym: blind.
5.
Become vague or indistinct.  Synonyms: blur, slur.  Antonym: focus.



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"Dimmed" Quotes from Famous Books



... men sat by the stove in the other room. The smoke from their pipes dimmed the light of the lamp. The quiet sounds of their talk and movements never entirely took from them the consciousness of the large dark silence that lay without. No footfall broke it. When they heard the distant rush of the night train, they all three went out to see its great ...
— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall
... always shine? I can't remember A single cloud that dimmed the happy blue,— A single lightning-bolt or peal of thunder, To daunt our bright, ...
— What Katy Did • Susan Coolidge
... heroic face from whose beams my heart first caught the fire of virtue!" She moved; and the clay-hued features of all that was ever perfect in manly beauty met his sight. But the bright eyes were shut; the radiance of his smile was dimmed in death, yet still that smile was there. Bruce precipitated his lips to his, and sinking on his knees, remained in a silence only broken by ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter
... South and North; And there beyond the Var, They drove our goodly fighters forth, And dimmed our ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... reach of achievement with the strongest assurance of durability, we believe that—after hesitating long over hypothetical degrees of blackened shadow and yellowed light, of lost outline and buried detail, of chilled luster, dimmed transparency, altered color, and weakened force—he would finally pause before a small picture on panel, representing two quaintly dressed figures in a dimly lighted room—dependent for its interest little on expression, ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin


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