Once the film moves to New York, its colors dim, as though all the light had gone out of Arenas's life.

All the lights and colors dimmed by half, then half again.

Dimming a light bulb, for example, changes the color of the light from yellowish to reddish.

It hardly helps that the cinematography is poor and the colors dim.

It seemed to get the message, because by degrees the yelling receded, and the colors dimmed.

Outside the brief tropic dusk dimmed the bright colors of Waikiki.

Ugly colors, hot dry atmosphere, dim little sun-a waste of time.

She applied each iron, the arc and the spoke, four times, reheating when the color dimmed.

Just before they were finished eating, a small cloud passed overhead and the bright colors of the meadow momentarily dimmed.

The colors of the day dimmed, as if a mist had passed over the cloudless sky.