Overshadow synonyms

ō'vər-shăd'ō

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shadow
To throw a shadow upon
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tower above
To dominate
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rule
To settle officially or by decree; determine
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adumbration
(Figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation of something.
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dwarf
An abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed.
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over-shadowed (related)
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manage
To succeed in coping or dealing with:
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dim
To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.
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cloud
To cover or obscure with clouds:
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dominate (related)
To exert a supreme, guiding influence on or over:
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govern (related)
To be a rule or law for; determine
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shade (related)
To protect or screen from light or heat
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adumbral
Dark, shady.
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eclipse
The definition of an eclipse is an obscuring of light, particularly of the sun or moon or a loss of greatness.
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adumbrate
To obscure; overshadow
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cover
To record or perform a cover of
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darken
(Intransitive) To become dark or darker (having less light).
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obfuscate
To obfuscate is to confuse someone, or to obscure the meaning of something.
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obscure
To diminish the stature of; overshadow or detract from:
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outshine
To exceed something or someone else, especially in an obvious or flamboyant manner
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reduce
(Medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
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becloud
To darken with or as if with clouds; obscure:
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bedim
To make (the eyes or the vision) dim; darken or obscure
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befog
To make obscure or muddled; confuse; bewilder
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blear
To blur (a surface or an outline)
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blur
To smear, stain or smudge.
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dull
To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
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fog
To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
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gloom
(Intransitive) to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
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mist
To spray the leaves of (a houseplant) with water from a mister
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overcast
To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
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clear (related)
(Computing) To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
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typify (related)
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unsettle (related)
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overwhelm (related)
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borne-out (related)
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stymie (related)
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command (related)
To hold, to control the use of.
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Overshadow Sentence Examples

  • This last question is beginning to overshadow all the rest.

  • The fact that the kings were often absent from England, and that the justiciarship was held by great nobles or churchmen, made this office of an importance which at times threatened to overshadow that of the Crown.

  • The system culminates in a mystical act, and in the sequel, especially with Iamblichus and the Syrian Neoplatonists, mystical practice tended more and more to overshadow the theoretical groundwork.

  • When the leaves are developed early, they often quite overshadow thi actual apex of the stem, and the rapid formation of leaf-tissui disturbs the obviousness of, and perhaps actually destroys, th~ stratified arrangement of the shoot initials.

  • 6, 7); and then the great day of judgment, which had seemed to overshadow Jerusalem in the now averted plague, shall draw near with awful tokens of blood and fire and darkness.

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