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(verb) make dim or lusterless; "Time had dimmed the silver" |
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Related Words: darken |
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(verb) become dim or lusterless; "dim the lights" |
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Related Words: change |
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(satellite adjective) lacking in light; not bright or harsh; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" |
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Synonyms: subdued |
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(satellite adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" |
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Synonyms: faint, shadowy, vague, wispy |
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(verb) switch a car's headlights from a higher to a lower beam |
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Synonyms: dip |
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Related Words: change intensity |
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(verb) become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" |
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Synonyms: blur, slur |
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Related Words: efface, obliterate, weaken, wipe |
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(verb) make dim by comparison or conceal |
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Synonyms: blind |
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Related Words: darken |
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(adjective) made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner" |
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Synonyms: dimmed |
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(satellite adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" |
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Synonyms: dense, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow |
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(verb) become or make darker; "The screen darkend"; "He darkened the colors by adding brown" |
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Synonyms: darken |
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Related Words: change intensity |
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(satellite adjective) offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" |
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Synonyms: black, bleak |
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