Definition of Overshadows

1. Verb. (third-person singular of overshadow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overshadows

1. overshadow [v] - See also: overshadow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overshadows

overshade
overshaded
overshades
overshading
overshadow
overshadowed
overshadower
overshadowers
overshadowing
overshadows (current term)
overshadowy
overshake
overshaken
overshakes
overshaking
overshape
overshare
overshared
overshares
oversharing
oversharp
oversheet
oversheets
overshielding

Literary usage of Overshadows

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Among sailors it is applied to a passenger or other land-lubber caught in the rigging and made to pay a forfeit. But the meaning that now overshadows all ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is true of the OT as a whole that the eschatology of the people overshadows that of the individual, though it is true at the same time that, ..."

3. Our Arctic Province, Alaska and the Seal Islands by Henry Wood Elliott (1906)
"The Seal- life here overshadows Everything, though the Bird Rookeries of Saint George are Wonderful.—No Harbors.—The Roadsteads.—The Attractive Flora. ..."

4. Socialism Inevitable (Wilshire Editorials) by Henry Gaylord Wilshire, Gaylord Wilshire (1907)
"THE TRUST overshadows ALL ISSUES (July, 1902.) the Trust would sooner or later be the great issue I in American politics I have never once doubted for the ..."

5. Charles Lamb: His Friends, His Haunts, and His Books by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1866)
"... that it is curious to consider how Akai- j>lay, to the music of the sea, overshadows the realities of their after lives." To conclude. ..."

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