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/ˈoʊvərʃˈædoʊ/ Listen

verb

Overshadow v. t. (past & past part. overshadowed; pres. part. overshadowing)

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. "There was a cloud that overshadowed them."

Fig.: To cover with a superior influence; to be viewed as more important than.

To cause to be sad or disappointing; to cast a sad shadow on; as, an accidental death overshadowed the joy of the festival.

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Etymology of 'Overshadow'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... open doors. Ellinor could not have told whether it was reason or instinct that made her act as she did during this awful night. In thinking of it afterwards, with shuddering avoidance of the haunting memory that would come and overshadow her during many, many years of her life, she grew to believe that the powerful smell of the spilt brandy absolutely intoxicated her—an unconscious Rechabite in practice. But something gave her a presence of mind and a courage ...

— A Dark Night's Work • Elizabeth Gaskell

... endeavoring to meet these tests. library work with children will make for better citizenship. It will take account not only of the children of the poor, but of the children of the well-to-do, who may need that influence even more. In the cities, which now overshadow our national life, there are no longer homes; there are flats, where the boys and ...

— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine

... fortress.—Sooner than 620 This—— [WERNER looks around, and snatches up a knife lying on a table in a recess. Now I am master of myself at least. Hark,—footsteps! How do I know that Stralenheim Will wait for even the show of that authority Which is to overshadow usurpation? That he suspects me 's certain. I'm alone— He with a numerous train: I weak—he strong In gold, in numbers, rank, authority. I nameless, or involving in my name Destruction, till I reach my own domain; He full-blown ...

— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron

... no imaginary cloud in the future overshadow the sunshine of to-day. Enjoy the happiness that is sent to you, and, if the call to duty elsewhere comes, obey it as all good soldiers of ...

— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch

... not, were I fifty times a prince, be a pensioner on the dead! I honor birth and ancestry when they are regarded as the incentives to exertion, not the title-deeds to sloth! I honor the laurels that overshadow the graves of our fathers—it is our fathers I emulate, when I desire that beneath the evergreen I myself have planted my own ashes may repose! Dearest! couldst thou but see ...

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