DIM — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
dim
Become vague or indistinct.
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- The distinction between the two theories blurred.
Make dim by comparison or conceal.
Make dim or lusterless.
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- Time had dimmed the silver.
Become dim or lusterless.
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- The lights dimmed and the curtain rose.
Become or make darker.
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- The screen darkend.
- He darkened the colors by adding brown.
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam.
Lacking in light; not bright or harsh.
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- A dim light beside the bed.
- Subdued lights and soft music.
Made dim or less bright.
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- The dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation.
- Dimmed headlights.
- We like dimmed lights when we have dinner.
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.
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- So dense he never understands anything I say to him.
- Never met anyone quite so dim.
- Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray.
- Dumb officials mak.
Lacking clarity or distinctness.
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- A dim figure in the distance.
- Only a faint recollection.
- Shadowy figures in the gloom.
- Saw a vague outline of a building through the fog.
- A few wispy memories of childhood.
Offering little or no hope.
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- The future looked black.
- Prospects were bleak.
- Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge.
- Took a dim view of things.
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