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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.
dislim. To strike out of a picture. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


dislimn

dislimn

English

Verb

dislimn (third-person singular simple present dislimns, present participle dislimning, simple past and past participle dislimned)

  1. (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)
    • 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.