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dim

 
 
/dɪm/ verb [I, T] (present participle dimming, past tense and past participle dimmed)

Translation

to become less bright, or to make something become less bright
donuklaş(tır)mak, karar(t)mak
He dimmed the lights and turned up the music.1500
(Definition of dim verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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