Dimming [verb]
Definition of Dimming:
darken; obscure
Synonyms of Dimming:
● Tarnish
● Eclipse
● Fade
● Blur
● Dull
● Cloud
● Lower
● Blear
● Muddy
● Bedim
● Haze
● Fog
● Becloud
● Pale
● Befog
Sentence/Example of Dimming:
Mars dims within days and won’t be this bright for the remainder of the year.
The program was pitched in late 2016 as a way to save money on energy costs because the devices can be dimmed or brightened from afar.
Mróz and his team measured how long it took the star to brighten and dim.
The pandemic increased women’s caregiving duties and dimmed their career prospects.
This nebula is 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Cetus, and you can catch a glimpse of it as a somewhat dim circle-shaped glow with a medium-sized telescope.
Congressional leaders advanced the short-term extension in federal funding as negotiations over an emergency economic relief package appeared to falter and prospects of a major breakthrough dimmed.
So when the star started acting strangely at the end of last year, Montargès and a small band of Betelgeuse diehards aimed every telescope they could at the dimming giant.
The occupants of the room had been too absorbed with their own affairs to notice the gradual dimming of the illumination.
The sand hung in fog-like clouds shrouding the sun, dimming the usual brilliance.
So they hastened, while above them the canopy of leaves grew denser, and more clouds piled across the dimming sun.