dimmen

From dim +‎ -en.^[1]

dimmen (third-person singular simple present dimmens, present participle dimmening, simple past and past participle dimmened)

1. (intransitive, rare) To become less bright; to dim.
   • 1993 November 10, [email protected], “syracuse grovel”, in rec.music.gdead‎ (Usenet):

     BTW, if you are planning to tape, i would be careful. The security is being very tight. They are checking the sweet spot in the middle carefully, people in Buffalo got booted even before the lights dimmened. I think everyone in Rochester got nailed.

   • 2016, John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 164:

     On sunnier days—the air was steadily dimmening as the autumn progressed—Stephanie would take down an enormous iron key, big and heavy enough to bludgeon to death Professor Plum in the parlour, from the last hook on the coat-rack behind the front door, and we would cross the road and open the ancient little gate, so rickety it seemed held together only by immemorial layers of glittering knobbly black paint.

Borrowed from English dim.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪmə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: dim‧men
• Rhymes: -ɪmən

dimmen

1. (transitive) to dim, to make darker (especially a light)
2. (intransitive, colloquial) to tone down oneself, to pipe down, to be quiet

   Effe dimmen, vriend. ― Check yourself, mate.

(dim):

• afblinden
• verduisteren

• dimmer

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dimmen (weak, third-person singular present dimmt, past tense dimmte, past participle gedimmt, auxiliary haben)

1. to dim

   Synonym: abblenden

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