Darken vs Bedim - What's the difference?

darken | bedim |

As verbs the difference between darken and bedim

is that darken is to make dark or darker by reducing light while bedim is to make dim; to obscure or darken.

darken

English

Verb

(en verb)

To make dark or darker by reducing light.

* Bible, Exodus x. 15

They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened .

To become dark or darker (having less light).

To make dark or darker in colour.

To become dark or darker in colour.

To render gloomy, darker in mood

* Shakespeare

With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not / The mirth of the feast.

To become gloomy, darker in mood

To blind, impair eyesight

* Bible, Rom xi. 10

Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see.

To be blinded, loose clear vision

To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

* Bible, Job xxxviii. 2

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

* Francis Bacon

Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darken his foresight.

To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

* Shakespeare

I must not think there are / Evils enough to darken all his goodness.

Conjugation

(en-conj-simple)

Derived terms

* darkener * darken someone's door

Synonyms

* blacken

Anagrams

* * * * * English ergative verbs

bedim

English

Verb

To make dim; to obscure or darken.

* 1843 , '', book 4, chapter VII, ''Tha Gifted :

Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere, — if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee.

* 1905 , , Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository times: Volume 16 :

There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth [...]

* 1818 , , volume 3, chapter 7:

Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.