Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedim
Verb
  • All while staring directly into the eye of the stranger sitting opposite. Without depth perception, with facial features and body outlines obscured, with the one available eye fixed straight ahead, the interior of the space appears to swirl and pulse.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • The strongest tool available to obscure your trail online is the Tor Browser.
    Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • Part of that brand was to label it a ‘spirit,’ blurring the psychological lines between an alcoholic beverage and a THC one.
    Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • At a sunny oceanfront venue, the line between a vacation-ready, potentially too-casual sundress and appropriate wedding-guest attire blurs.
    Catie Pusateri, Glamour, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • Among the key agenda this year was also Trump’s tariff policy that has darkened the outlook for global economic growth.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 June 2025
  • Bay's darkening around the bikini area still hasn’t fully resolved, but the discoloration on her arms has faded to be almost unnoticeable.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 14 June 2025
Verb
  • She was known as 'truly a beautiful person inside and out' CT high school’s joy in graduation dimmed by classmate taken by ICE.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
  • Its orange backlight can be dimmed or turned off completely.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • Nearly five years after a massive fire burned California’s oldest state park, Big Basin Redwoods, blackening groves of famous ancient redwoods and destroying all the campgrounds, the visitor center and other facilities, state parks officials have finalized a plan to rebuild.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
  • Lightning had struck a single ponderosa pine, blackening its trunk.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • For now, though, his injury is clouding his status.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Neptune may cloud your perception of what’s achievable, while Jupiter urges you to think bigger.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • With temperatures expected to be even higher in Chicago for the final game of the series on Sunday, the Cubs plan to bring in a city bus to use as a cooling station next to the stadium – in addition to the cooling and misting stations that were already present for Saturday’s game.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 22 June 2025
  • Trendsetters are misting it on their bodies after workouts, spritzing it on their faces as part of their daily cleansing routine, and swearing by it on social media.
    Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 6 June 2025
Verb
  • 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
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“Bedim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedim. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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