Word Meanings - OVERGLOOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow. Overgloomed by memories of sorrow. De Quincey.

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• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• SORROWLESS
  Free from sorrow.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• GLOOMILY
  In a gloomy manner.
• GLOOM
  1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. 2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson . 3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect
• OVERSHADOWER
  One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.
• OVERSHADOWY
  Overshadowing.
• SORROWFUL
  1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
• OVERGLOOM
  To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow. Overgloomed by memories of sorrow. De Quincey.
• GLOOMINESS
  State of being gloomy. Addison.
• GLOOMTH
  Gloom. Walpole.
• SPREAD
  spreden, spreen, spreien, G. spreiten, Dan. sprede, Sw. sprida. Cf. 1. To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent
• GLOOMING
  Twilight ; the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.
• SPREADER
  1. One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates. 2. A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• OVERSORROW
  To grieve or afflict to excess. Milton.
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• DESPREAD
  See DISPREAD
• UNSORROWED
  Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl.