Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bedim
Participle: bedimmed
Gerund: bedimming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bedim |
| you | bedim |
| he;she;it | bedims |
| we | bedim |
| you | bedim |
| they | bedim |
Perfect
| I | have bedimmed |
| you | have bedimmed |
| he;she;it | has bedimmed |
| we | have bedimmed |
| you | have bedimmed |
| they | have bedimmed |
Past
| I | bedimmed |
| you | bedimmed |
| he;she;it | bedimmed |
| we | bedimmed |
| you | bedimmed |
| they | bedimmed |
Pluperfect
| I | had bedimmed |
| you | had bedimmed |
| he;she;it | had bedimmed |
| we | had bedimmed |
| you | had bedimmed |
| they | had bedimmed |
Future
| I | will bedim |
| you | will bedim |
| he;she;it | will bedim |
| we | will bedim |
| you | will bedim |
| they | will bedim |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bedimmed |
| you | will have bedimmed |
| he;she;it | will have bedimmed |
| we | will have bedimmed |
| you | will have bedimmed |
| they | will have bedimmed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bedim |
| you | bedim |
| he;she;it | bedim |
| we | bedim |
| you | bedim |
| they | bedim |
Perfect
| I | have bedimmed |
| you | have bedimmed |
| he;she;it | have bedimmed |
| we | have bedimmed |
| you | have bedimmed |
| they | have bedimmed |
Imperfect
| I | bedimmed |
| you | bedimmed |
| he;she;it | bedimmed |
| we | bedimmed |
| you | bedimmed |
| they | bedimmed |
Pluperfect
| I | had bedimmed |
| you | had bedimmed |
| he;she;it | had bedimmed |
| we | had bedimmed |
| you | had bedimmed |
| they | had bedimmed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bedim |
| you | would bedim |
| he;she;it | would bedim |
| we | would bedim |
| you | would bedim |
| they | would bedim |
Perfect
| I | would have bedimmed |
| you | would have bedimmed |
| he;she;it | would have bedimmed |
| we | would have bedimmed |
| you | would have bedimmed |
| they | would have bedimmed |
Imperative
| you | bedim |
| we | Let's bedim |
| you | bedim |
Verbs conjugated like 'bedim'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bedim'
bedip,
benim,
beam,
bed,
bedag,
bedamn,
bedamp,
bedaw,
bede,
bedeem,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
6. Proto-Germanic *bider.
7. Proto-Germanic *bi-
8. Proto-West Germanic *bi-
9. Old English be-
10. Middle English bi-
11. English be-
12. English dim
13. English bedim
14. From be- + dim.
Sample Sentences
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I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous vvindes, / And tvvixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring vvarre: […] [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 16, column 2:]
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Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim. [1796 December 24–26 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 58:]
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish. [1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:]
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Read in thy New Testament and elsewhere,—if, with floods of mealymouthed inanity, with miserable froth-vortices of Cant now several centuries old, thy New Testament is not all bedimmed for thee. [1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “The Gifted”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):]
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Your voice is sad whene'er you speak / and tears bedim your loving eyes. [1875, Thomas Payne Westendorf, “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen”:]
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There will be no folly, nor laughter, nor bedimming of truth […] [1905, James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings, The Expository Times, volume XVI:]