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Dim vs Bedarken - What's the difference?

dim | bedarken |

As verbs the difference between dim and bedarken

is that dim is to make something less bright while bedarken is to make dim, or to darken, or obscure.

As an adjective dim

is not bright or colorful.

As an adverb dim

is dimly, indistinctly.

As a noun dim

is dimness.

dim

Translingual

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    bedarken

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make dim, or to darken, or obscure.
  • * 1843 , , book 1, chapter 6: “Hero-Worship”
    • for light spreads; all human souls, never so bedarkened , love light; light once kindled spreads, till all is luminous
  • * 1962 , Joseph Gies, Adventure Underground: Tunnels , page 260
    • Even if there had been a glimmer of light, the dust would have robbed us of it; it was dense enough to bedarken an out-of-doors spot.