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dislimn en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /dɪsˈlɪm/

Etymology

From dis- + limn.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, transitive) To remove the outlines of; to efface.
   • It was the weather when […] the distances dare assume the purple as the sunset dislimns. 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 78:
   • That which is now a horse, even with a thought / The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, / As water is in water. 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]:

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