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Webster 1913 Edition
Dislimn
Dis-limn′
,Verb.
T.
[Pref.
dis-
+ limn
.] To efface, as a picture.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dislimn
DISLIMN
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
dislimn
dislimn
English
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.
- "That which is now a horse, even with a thought / The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, / As water is in water." - said by Antony in Antony and Cleopatra. (Act 4, Scene 14)
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1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 78:
- It was the weather when […] the distances dare assume the purple as the sunset dislimns.