"bedim" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:",
          "text": "[…] by whose aid, / Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d / The noontide sun […]",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "(transitive) To make dim; to obscure or darken."
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          "code": "mi",
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          "sense": "to make dim or to darken",
          "word": "parekohu"
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