Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Dimmed
Dimm’d … like a vague remnant of some by-past scene.
—Charlotte Brontë
Dimmed and flattened, like an etching that has gone too often to the press.
—John Corbin
Dimmed and torn, like the remainder tatters of a dream.
—Thomas Hood
Dimm’d, like to the morning mist.
—Thomas Sackville