BEDIM Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

bedim

verb

bi-ˈdim

Definition of bedim

as in to obscure

to make dark, dim, or indistinct the view from the mountain's summit is often bedimmed by haze

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Tornado Cash obscures transaction trails by mixing cryptocurrency deposits and withdrawals.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Flock fights to obscure 100,000 cameras For Flock protesters, cases like the one in Florida are disturbing, since Flock appears to take great pains to obscure who owns cameras where and how large its camera network is.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of obscure

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But whether in Frankfurt or, later, Weimar — where Soviet officials are as keen to canonize Thomas — this father and daughter aren’t simply driving through Germany but taking a tour across fascism’s long shadow, which still darkens the world.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Visual Forensics The monument would darken the nation’s premier military burial ground early in the morning on more than 280 days a year, a Post analysis finds.

— Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of darken

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And in North Carolina, the main super PAC supporting Senate Republicans — the Senate Leadership Fund — scaled back its spending for Michael Whatley earlier this month, a sign of the dimming prospects for holding the seat.

— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Now, the market is stalled by surging mortgage rates, the compounding effect from years of rising home prices and an economic outlook dimmed by high inflation.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of dim

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As the balloon and its occupants fell to the ground, the nylon envelope and the gondola separated, and the wreckage scattered over a roughly 100-yard area, parts of it blackened by the explosion and resulting fire.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
The shrinking process had exaggerated some features, vanished others, and blackened the flesh.

— Daniel Barnum, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of blacken

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Glee outgrew itself and became a different show altogether, and those last three seasons clouded the show’s legacy.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
On the greatest album of all time, her voice is less affected yet further out of reach, persistently clouded by AutoTune and sometimes submerged under the beats, so only her sibilants break the surface.

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of cloud

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But instead of sounding the alarm, defendants went out of their way to becloud the emerging scientific consensus.

— Edward Fitzpatrick, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
His flacks and surrogates hand out scraps of information grudgingly, infrequently, and beclouded by fragrant eructations of doublespeak.

— Charles Seife, Slate Magazine, 1 Mar. 2017

Definition of becloud

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