bedim

But bedim the woman, he enjoyed her company.

Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.

Apparently, the last colonists were struggling to keep VeeRon's irradium mines open--it was a skeleton crew, men without families, only enough to maintain the mining robots-- bedim them, EHet observed.

"Ye elves of desert, rocks, and wind-blown dunes, And ye that on the sand with printless foot Do chase siroccos, and do fly them, Whose aid, weak masters though ye be, I now require, to bedim the noontide sun, And save my hide from furnace winds!"