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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Totality — when the sun is completely obscured — is only visible within the narrow path of the moon's shadow.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2026
No political spin, just a focus on the numbers from governments’ own reports and how their unique accounting rules and financial definitions are obscuring the full truth of their financial story.

— Sheila Weinberg, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of obscure

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Miramax's explosive success with Pulp Fiction ignited an indie boom, rewrote Oscar campaigns, and blurred the line between independent cinema and the Hollywood mainstream.

— Big Think, Big Think, 4 Aug. 2026
With an interior volume of 1,100 GT, the yacht features a generous open-plan layout designed to blur the traditional boundaries between the indoor and outdoor environments.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of blur

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The sky darkens to twilight, exposing the Sun's corona and sometimes revealing stars and planets as temperatures briefly cool.

— Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2026
The summer sounds of 1966 offered a distraction from darkening clouds of social and political upheaval.

— Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of darken

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And while enough baseball (and IL time) has happened since then to dim Mayer’s star considerably, there’s enough promise left in him to get Law riled up about the trade.

— Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Adaptive matrix headlights, which can selectively dim portions of the beam to avoid dazzling other drivers while maintaining maximum illumination elsewhere, are theoretically the technological solution to the problem.

— Matthew MacConnell, ArsTechnica, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of dim

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Leaves that are underwater can encourage bacteria, cloud the water, cause odors, and decrease your flower stem’s ability to take up water.

— Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2026
However, it was clouded by an injury to one of their top offseason acquisitions.

— Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of cloud

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Throughout the grounds, shaded seating areas, misting stations, and more than 40,000 plants and 1,200 trees offer reprieve from the August heat.

— Hanlon Walsh, Midwest Living, 6 Aug. 2026
During spells of extreme heat and humidity, zoos should give lions ample shade, deploy cooling pads, and mist them with water, Whitnall said.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of mist

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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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