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单词 overshadow
释义
overshadowo‧ver‧shad‧ow /ˌəʊvəˈʃædəʊ $ ˌoʊvərˈʃædoʊ/ verb [transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
overshadow
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyovershadow
he, she, itovershadows
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyovershadowed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave overshadowed
he, she, ithas overshadowed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad overshadowed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill overshadow
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have overshadowed
Continuous Form
PresentIam overshadowing
he, she, itis overshadowing
you, we, theyare overshadowing
PastI, he, she, itwas overshadowing
you, we, theywere overshadowing
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been overshadowing
he, she, ithas been overshadowing
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been overshadowing
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be overshadowing
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been overshadowing
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • An impressive 25-story skyscraper overshadows the temple next door.
  • Rumors of financial malpractice overshadowed the President's inauguration ceremony.
  • Tim felt constantly overshadowed by his older brother.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week.
  • Gore has assiduously cultivated his eventual presidential candidacy without undercutting or overshadowing Clinton.
  • He has been overshadowed by Kevin Hardy, the top defensive prospect in the draft.
  • It was an anxiety so consuming that it overshadowed what actually happened once the war came.
  • It would be overshadowed if it did.
  • The first was that the adjoining bungalow would not be overshadowed, either practically or figuratively, by the new house.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· It is easy to let this feeling of tragedy overshadow his story, but that would be wrong.
Word family
WORD FAMILYadjectiveshadowyshadowverbshadowovershadownounshadow
1to make someone or something else seem less important:  Her interest in politics began to overshadow her desire to be a poet. The achievement of the men’s team was overshadowed by the continuing success of the women’s team.2to make an occasion or period of time less enjoyable by making people feel sad or worried:  The threat of war overshadowed the summer of 1939.3if a tall building, mountain etc overshadows a place, it is very close to it and much taller than it:  a dark valley overshadowed by towering peaks
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