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overshadows

overshadows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overshadow.

Meaning of overshadow

Verb

overshadow (third-person singular simple present overshadows, present participle overshadowing, simple past and past participle overshadowed)

  1. (transitive) To obscure something by casting a shadow.
    • While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 9:34
  2. (transitive) To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.
    • A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous...1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514
  3. (transitive) To shelter or protect.

Questions about overshadows

What is overshadows the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overshadows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overshadow.

Words near overshadows in the dictionary

  1. overshadoweth
  2. overshadowing
  3. overshadowingly
  4. overshadowings
  5. overshadowment
  6. overshadows
  7. overshadowy
  8. overshake
  9. overshaken
  10. overshakes
  11. overshaking

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