dimmen

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English

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Etymology

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From dim +‎ -en.[1]

Verb

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dimmen (third-person singular simple present dimmens, present participle dimmening, simple past and past participle dimmened)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To become less bright; to dim.
    • 1993 November 10, pau...@ritvax.isc.rit.edu, “syracuse grovel”, in rec.music.gdead[1] (Usenet):
      BTW, if you are planning to tape, i would be careful. The security is being very tight. They are checking the sweet spot in the middle carefully, people in Buffalo got booted even before the lights dimmened. I think everyone in Rochester got nailed.
    • 2016, John Banville, Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 164:
      On sunnier days—the air was steadily dimmening as the autumn progressed—Stephanie would take down an enormous iron key, big and heavy enough to bludgeon to death Professor Plum in the parlour, from the last hook on the coat-rack behind the front door, and we would cross the road and open the ancient little gate, so rickety it seemed held together only by immemorial layers of glittering knobbly black paint.

References

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  1. ^ dimmen, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English dim.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɪmə(n)/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: dim‧men
  • Rhymes: -ɪmən

Verb

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dimmen

  1. (transitive) to dim, to make darker (especially a light)
  2. (intransitive, colloquial) to tone down oneself, to pipe down, to be quiet
    Effe dimmen, vriend.Check yourself, mate.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of dimmen (weak)
infinitive dimmen
past singular dimde
past participle gedimd
infinitive dimmen
gerund dimmen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular dim dimde
2nd person sing. (jij) dimt, dim2 dimde
2nd person sing. (u) dimt dimde
2nd person sing. (gij) dimt dimde
3rd person singular dimt dimde
plural dimmen dimden
subjunctive sing.1 dimme dimde
subjunctive plur.1 dimmen dimden
imperative sing. dim
imperative plur.1 dimt
participles dimmend gedimd
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

Synonyms

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(dim):

Derived terms

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German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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dimmen (weak, third-person singular present dimmt, past tense dimmte, past participle gedimmt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to dim
    Synonym: abblenden

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • dimmen” in Duden online
  • dimmen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache