bedim

Other forms of bedim

past tense or participle

bedimmed

present participle

bedimming

third person

bedims·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bedim

What does bedim mean?

bedim means "make darker and difficult to perceive by sight". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bedim?

bedim has 2 syllables: be-dim. The stress falls on "dim".

What is another word for bedim?

Close synonyms include benight, obscure, overcloud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bedim a common word?

bedim is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.