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单词 overgloom
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overgloomv.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈɡluːm/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈɡlum/
Forms: see over- prefix and gloom v.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, gloom v.1
Etymology: < over- prefix + gloom v.1
Chiefly poetic.
transitive. To overshadow; to cast a gloom over, to sadden.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > intercept or cut off (light) [verb (transitive)] > overshadow
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umbrate1623
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1796 S. T. Coleridge To Author of Poems in Poems 126 The cloud-climb'd rock..That like some giant king, o'er glooms the hill.
1812 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 580 Nothing intervenes to overgloom my mind.
1845 T. De Quincey On Wordsworth's Poetry in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 547/2 Joy that is ebullient from youth to age, and cannot cease to sparkle, he yet exhibits in the person of Matthew, the village schoolmaster, as touched and overgloomed by memories of sorrow.
1883 L. Morris Songs Unsung 154 A dark road stole to it O'er~gloomed by cypress, and no boat was there Nor ferry.
1914 T. Hardy Satires of Circumstance 169 I am sure it's a dream that cannot be true, But I am so overgloomed By its persistence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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