dimmen

Definitions

To become less bright; to dim.

intransitive, rare

Examples

“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.”

“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⟳.”

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