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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : dim |
Phonetic Transcription : dɪm |
Definition of dimming
Origin :- c.1200, perhaps in Old English, from dim (adj.). Related: Dimmed; dimming.
- verb darken; obscure
- Dawn was breaking through the windows and dimming the electric lights.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- His eyes were dimming with tears, and his voice quavered uncertainly.
- Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
- Then the light vanished, leaving a dimming glow where it had been.
- Extract from : « Space Prison » by Tom Godwin
- Now, from his dimming intelligence the sense of time had slipped away.
- Extract from : « The Watchers of the Trails » by Charles G. D. Roberts
- Her arms were outstretched to the dimming form of Harry and the incandescence.
- Extract from : « The Blind Spot » by Austin Hall
- May watched them with a sudden brightening and dimming of the eyes.
- Extract from : « Narcissus » by Evelyn Scott
- Already their white crests were gleaming crimson in the dimming light.
- Extract from : « The Inca Emerald » by Samuel Scoville
- His dimming eyes wandered to the bag of cartridges and the pistol at her belt.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of Victory » by Myrtle Reed
- But the glory of one light must ever be the dimming of another.
- Extract from : « Penrod » by Booth Tarkington
- The Kabbala, too, had done its work, in dimming the eyes of men by its illusions.
- Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. IV (of VI) » by Heinrich Graetz
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