bedim

verb

1. (transitive)To make dim; to obscure or darken.

   “[…] by whose aid, / Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d / The noontide sun […]”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “"Your voice is sad whene'er you speak / and tears bedim your loving eyes."”