dimmen

D2I1M3M3E1N1

verb

To become less bright; to dim.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbdimmen (third-person singular simple present dimmens, present participle dimmening, simple past and past participle dimmened)

present singular third person dimmens · participle present dimmening · participle past dimmened · past dimmened

  1. intransitiverareTo become less bright; to dim.

    BTW, if you are planning to tape, i would be careful. The security is being very tight. They are checking the sweet spot in the middle carefully, people in Buffalo got booted even before the lights dimmened. I think everyone in Rochester got nailed.

    1993 November 10, pau...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu, “syracuse grovel”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet)
    1 more example

    On sunnier days—the air was steadily dimmening as the autumn progressed—Stephanie would take down an enormous iron key, big and heavy enough to bludgeon to death Professor Plum in the parlour, from the last hook on the coat-rack behind the front door, and we would cross the road and open the ancient little gate, so rickety it seemed held together only by immemorial layers of glittering knobbly black paint.

    2016, John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 164

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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