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English
Etymology
From dis- + limn.
Verb
dislimn (third-person singular simple present dislimns, present participle dislimning, simple past and past participle dislimned)
- (transitive) To remove the outlines of; to efface.
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :That which is now a horse, even with a thought / The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, / As water is in water.
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 78:It was the weather when […] the distances dare assume the purple as the sunset dislimns.