as in obscures
to make dark, dim, or indistinct
the storm clouds dimmed our view of the city from the airplane
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Recent Examples of dims
In reality, the tests for battery life and brightness are separate, and brightness dims as the battery drains.
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Adam Trenkamp, Outside, 27 Dec. 2025
The light dims, the temperatures drop, and suddenly the world asks you to become your own source of warmth.
—Brooke Devard Ozaydinli, Refinery29, 11 Dec. 2025
Her certainty falters as the light from the mothership dims, the last traces of the hive connection dying above them.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
As the fire dims to embers, a thousand eyes open above me.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
As the outlook for crude prices dims, the ability of these funds — and the small group of people who control them — to project power and influence across the world looks undiminished.
—Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
The atomic method does not need calibration; the rate at which fluorescence dims depending on the vacuum pressure can be calculated accurately.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
Only a few dozen have been directly imaged; the vast majority have been detected indirectly, primarily through the transit method (when a planet moves across a star and slightly dims its light) or radial velocity measurements (stars wobbling slightly because a planet is in orbit).
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Apple diffuses the color and shape of underlying content somewhat and dims it a little so that all of the UI that's up there at the top of the screen stays legible, which usually works but occasionally doesn't.
—ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dims
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In this way, Berlin and New York were linked as though through an imaginary tunnel that gave passage to the hidden or half-glimpsed sexualities that heteropatriarchy silences and obscures.—
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This deliberately obscures the possibility that some victims were lactating female bears — and for every dead mother, there was probably at least one cub in danger of dying from starvation.—
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Every night from January 2 – 4, the super Wolf Moon can be seen in the eastern sky as the sky darkens, rising higher and moving southward as midnight draws near, according to BBC Sky at Night Magazine.—
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Ash-like material darkens the air, coming out of the giant cracks in the world Vecna ripped open by using the lives of four people, including the now-comatose Max, to open four gates from the Upside Down.—
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About Modern Work Spaces Hackl says that efficient workflows are still the primary goal, but the concept has changed in a way that blurs the lines of the classic three-sided shape.—
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Squire’s story blurs ideological lines.—
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“Dims.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dims. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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