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Definitions: Bedim |
BedimVerb1. 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: BedimSynonyms: benight (v), obscure (v), overcloud (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: clarify (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bedim |
| English words defined with "bedim": Bedimming. (references) |
| 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 ofuscar (bedazzle, blear, blur, daze, dazzle, dim, obfuscate, outshine, overshoe, sadden). (various references) întuneca (cloud, darken, dim, gloom, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, overcloud, overshadow, sadden, tarnish). (various references) затемнять (adumbrate, becloud, black out, blind, darken, dim, dim out, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow). (various references) zamutiti (dim, grow dim, mix, roil, stir), potamneti (darken). (various references) nublar (befog, blear, mist), amortiguar (absorb, attanuate, attenuate, blanket, break, cushion, deaden, extenuate, leak, muffle, mute, silence, soften, to snub). (various references) dimma (brume, fog, haze, mist, vapor, vapour). (various references) 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) затуманювати (befog, bemist, blear, blur, fog, mist), затемнювати (adumbrate, bedarken, blind, darken, deface, dim out, obfuscate, obscure, obumbrate, overshadow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bedim": bedimmed, bedimming, bedimple, bedimpled, bedimples, bedimpling, bedims. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 64 69 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.. .. -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100100 01101001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e d i m |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671707579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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