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Bedim

Definitions: Bedim

Bedim

Verb

1. Make difficult to perceive by sight; "The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake".

2. Make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bedim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)



Synonyms: Bedim

Synonyms: benight (v), obscure (v), overcloud (v). (additional references)
Antonym: clarify (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bedim

English words defined with "bedim": Bedimming. (references)

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Modern Translations: Bedim

Language Translations for "bedim"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

errësoj (adumbrate, becloud, black out, blur, darken, dim, dusk, eclipse, fog, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shadow). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏أغشى, ‏شبه سحابه. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

замъглявам (befog, blur, dim, dull, film, fog, muddy, skim), помрачавам (alloy, cloud, darken, dim, dull, dusk, eclipse, nip, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shade, shadow, trouble). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zamlžit (dim). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκοτίζω (bother, worry), θολώνω (cloud, muddle, obfuscate, roil, snafu, steam up, to become cloudy, to darken, to dull, to haze). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elhomályosít (blur, dusk, outshine, overcast, tarnish, to adumbrate, to blur, to chill, to eclipse, to efface, to obfuscate, to obscure, to overshadow, to overtop, to throw into the shade). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo dorraghey (blear, darken), cur bodjal er (befog, fog). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edimbay

   

Portuguese

  

ofuscar (bedazzle, blear, blur, daze, dazzle, dim, obfuscate, outshine, overshoe, sadden). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

întuneca (cloud, darken, dim, gloom, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, overcloud, overshadow, sadden, tarnish). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

затемнять (adumbrate, becloud, black out, blind, darken, dim, dim out, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zamutiti (dim, grow dim, mix, roil, stir), potamneti (darken). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nublar (befog, blear, mist), amortiguar (absorb, attanuate, attenuate, blanket, break, cushion, deaden, extenuate, leak, muffle, mute, silence, soften, to snub). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dimma (brume, fog, haze, mist, vapor, vapour). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

belirsizleştirmek (obscure), karartmak (becloud, befog, black, blacken, blackout, cloud, darken, dim, dim out, fade, fade out, fog, lour, lower, obfuscate, obscure, shadow), donuklaştırmak (deaden, dim, dull, fog, scumble). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

затуманювати (befog, bemist, blear, blur, fog, mist), затемнювати (adumbrate, bedarken, blind, darken, deface, dim out, obfuscate, obscure, obumbrate, overshadow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bedim

Derivations

Words beginning with "bedim": bedimmed, bedimming, bedimple, bedimpled, bedimples, bedimpling, bedims. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bedim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badami, Bdam, bedai, bedam, Bedan, bedie, Bedini, bedit, bedium, bedumb, Beedini, beid, Beim, belim, berim, betem, Beydun, Bheim, Bodum, bsdi, Budin, edim. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bedim

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: imbed.

Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-m"

-1 letter: bide, dime, idem.

-2 letters: bed, bid, deb, dib, die, dim, med, mib, mid.

-3 letters: be, bi, de, ed, em, id, me, mi.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-m"
 

+1 letter: bedims, ibidem, imbeds, imbued, limbed.

 

+2 letters: ameboid, bedtime, bemired, bemixed, berimed, birdmen, brimmed, bromide, climbed, imbibed, imbrued, wimbled.

 

+3 letters: amberoid, amoeboid, bdellium, becrimed, bedimmed, bedimple, bedtimes, begrimed, bemisted, beslimed, besmiled, biformed, birdlime, bromides, bromized, combined, dimmable, divebomb, embodied, embodier, embodies, embryoid, gimbaled, imbalmed, imbarked, imbedded, imblazed, imbodied, imbodies, imbolden, imbruted, intombed, limbered, mandible, nimbused, semibald, sublimed, timbered, unimbued.

 

+4 letters: admirable, amberoids, bdelliums, bedamning, bedimming, bedimpled, bedimples, bedlamite, bedumbing, begrimmed, bemingled, bepimpled, bevomited, birdlimed, birdlimes, blemished, bromeliad, carbamide, demobbing, disembark, disembody, dismember, dissemble, divebombs, embedding, embodiers, embodying, embroider, embroiled, embryoids, gimballed, imbedding, imboldens, imbosomed, imbowered, imbrowned, mandibles, medicable, misbiased, misbilled, mobilised, mobilized, submitted, underbrim, upclimbed, zombified.

 

+5 letters: abominated, abridgment, admissible, ambitioned, bedimpling, bedlamites, bemadaming, bemuddling, besmirched, besmudging, bigmouthed, biomedical, bipedalism, bombardier, bombinated, bridegroom, bridesmaid, bromeliads, brominated, carbamides, coembodied, coembodies, demobilize, disbarment, disbosomed, disembarks, disembogue, disembowel, dismembers, dissembled, dissembler, dissembles, divebombed, dumbwaiter, embeddings, embittered, embodiment, embrittled, embroiders, embroidery, fimbriated, firebombed, formidable, homebodies, imbalanced, imbittered, imboldened, imbricated, incumbered, mailbombed, marbleised, marbleized, middlebrow, mindblower, misbehaved, misbiassed, misbranded, misdoubted, mislabeled, mislabored, modifiable, morbidness, motorbiked, multilobed, outclimbed, recombined, reembodied, reembodies, reimbursed, remediable, rhomboidei, somebodies, sublimated, submarined, submediant, symbolised, symbolized, timberhead, timberland, timbrelled, uncombined, underbrims, unlimbered.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bedim


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 64 69 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    -..    ..    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100100 01101001 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#100 &#105 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0064 0069 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3671707579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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