Meanings
verbdislimn (third-person singular simple present dislimns, present participle dislimning, simple past and past participle dislimned)
present singular third person dislimns · participle present dislimning · participle past dislimned · past dislimned
- intransitivetransitiveTo remove the outlines of; to efface.
It was the weather when […] the distances dare assume the purple as the sunset dislimns.
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 781 more example
That which is now a horse, even with a thought / The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, / As water is in water.
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]
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