grow+dim
11fade — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. pale, dim, bleach, whiten; vanish, disappear; languish, wither, shrivel. See dimness, colorlessness, nonexistence, deterioration, disappearance, weakness, transientness, oblivion. II (Roget s IV) v …
12Dimness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Dimness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dimness dimness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 darkness darkness &c. 421 Sgm: N 1 paleness paleness &c.(light color) 429 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 half light half light …
13darken — Synonyms and related words: attaint, bandage, beat down, becloud, bedarken, bedaub, bedazzle, bedim, befog, begloom, bemist, benight, besmear, besmirch, besmoke, bestain, black, black out, blacken, blackwash, blanch, blind, blind the eyes,… …
14dusk — Synonyms and related words: bad light, blackish, broad day, brown of dusk, brownness, caliginous, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscular, crepuscule, dark, dark colored, darken, darkish, darkishness, darkle, darksome, darksomeness,… …
15gloom — Synonyms and related words: adumbrate, becloud, bedarken, bedim, begloom, black, black out, blacken, blackness, bleakness, block the light, blot out, blues, brood, brown, cast a shadow, cloud, cloud over, cloudiness, dark, dark shade, darken,… …
16fade — Synonyms and related words: abate, achromatize, age, ante, ante up, antiquate, arid, attenuate, avoid, back, back number, banal, barren, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, become extinct, become obsolete …
17lour — Synonyms and related words: abase, abash, abated, ablated, abridge, apprehend, approach, attenuated, await, bated, be imminent, be in store, bear down, beat down, belittled, bludgeon, bode, bore, break, brew, bring down, bring low, bulldoze, bump …
18lower — Synonyms and related words: abase, abash, abated, ablated, abridge, apprehend, approach, attenuated, await, bated, be imminent, be in store, bear down, beat down, belittle, belittled, bludgeon, bode, bore, break, brew, bring down, bring low,… …
19blacken — verb 1) they blackened their faces Syn: black, darken; dirty, make sooty, make smoky, stain, grime, soil Ant: whiten, clean 2) the sky blackened Syn …
20darken — v 1. blacken, black, opaque; shade, shadow, overshadow; eclipse, occult, black out, blot out; smudge, smirch, blotch, soot, begrime. 2. cloud, becloud, obscure, obfuscate, obumbrate. 3. dull, deaden, mat, tone down, take the color out of. 4. dim …
