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Another word for eclipse

a-z
Verb

  1. To make dim or indistinct

    See also:

    clear

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Another word for eclipse

Noun
Verb
  1. See also:

    shade

    exceed

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Sentence Examples

  • He also observed the eclipse of the sun on May 4, 1818.

  • foretold that there would be a solar eclipse in that year, as stated by Herodotus.

  • After a long eclipse it was finally re-established, though in a very modified form, by Alfonso Liguori about the middle of the 18th century.

  • The solar eclipse of 1748 made a deep impression upon him; and having graduated as seventh wrangler from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1754, he determined to devote himself wholly to astronomy.

  • In 1860 De la Rue took the photoheliograph to Spain for the purpose of photographing the total solar eclipse which occurred on the 18th of July of that year.

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