His eyes were still closed and he realized the pain had dimmed considerably.

I huddled around the bone-deep, burning pain in my chest, biting my lips to keep from whimpering, until the pain had dimmed enough so that I could think about something, anything else.... There was nothing I wanted to think about.

The pain in his head was dimming, and psychic space rippled like wind-bright curtains.

So she had gone to him to minister to his agony in the arts that only she knew, and through the months of companionship they had known, it seemed to Rehhaile that the pain had somewhat dimmed within Kane.

The pain was dimming my vision, sharpening my memory of Magnus's dungeon, the mortal prisoners who had died among the rotted bodies of those condemned before them in the stinking crypt.

Hodges nodded, pain dimming his eyes.

He felt the chill of local anesthetic, and the pain dimmed.

The pain had dimmed, but the symbols still glowed faintly, like lichen.

Cumulative pain dims the spirit, a bit at a time.