gloomed

Verb

gloom (third-person singular simple present glooms, present participle glooming, simple past and past participle gloomed)

1. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.
   • Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC, page 17
2. (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
   • Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman: A North of England Story, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, →OCLC, page 170

   Synonyms:

   grieve, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, darken, engrieve, erme, grieven, bleed

3. (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
   • A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Letters”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 115
4. (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
   • For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 110
5. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.

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