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单词 overshadower
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overshadowern.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈʃadəʊə/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈʃædəwər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: overshadow v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < overshadow v. + -er suffix1.
A person who or thing which overshadows.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > casting into the shade > one who
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1618 F. Bacon Let. to King 2 Jan. in Cabala (1654) 9 No oppressors of the people, no overshadowers of the Crown.
1878 J. B. Mozley Ess. II. 262 A man..who therefore always would be his rival and overshadower.
1998 Miami Herald (Nexis) 29 Mar. 3 c The TPC isn't viewed as a ‘major’ because it comes only two weeks before its grand overshadower, The Masters.
2002 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Apr. 11 Four ‘great overshadowers’—Hardy, Yeats, Eliot and Auden—are omitted as exempt from Hammerhead's visa-inspection, having earned their permanent citizenship to posterity 70 to 100 years ago.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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