bedim

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: be=dim

CIDE DICTIONARY

bedim, v. t. 

 To make dim; to obscure or darken.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bedim, v.tr. (bedimmed, bedimming) poet. make (the eyes, mind, etc.) dim.

ROGET THESAURUS

bedim

Darkness

VB be dark, darken, obscure, shade, dim, tone down, lower, overcast, overshadow, eclipse, obfuscate, offuscate, obumbrate, adumbrate, cast into the shade becloud, bedim, bedarken, cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom, extinguish, put out, blow out, snuff out, doubt, turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights.

Dimness

VB be dim, grow dim, flicker, twinkle, glimmer, loom, lower, fade, pale, pale its ineffectual fire, render dim, dim, bedim, obscure, darken, tone down.