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overshadowo‧ver‧shad‧ow /ˌəʊvəˈʃædəʊ $ ˌoʊvərˈʃædoʊ/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEovershadow |
Present | I, you, we, they | overshadow | | he, she, it | overshadows | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | overshadowed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have overshadowed | | he, she, it | has overshadowed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had overshadowed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will overshadow | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have overshadowed |
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Present | I | am overshadowing | | he, she, it | is overshadowing | | you, we, they | are overshadowing | Past | I, he, she, it | was overshadowing | | you, we, they | were overshadowing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been overshadowing | | he, she, it | has been overshadowing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been overshadowing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be overshadowing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been overshadowing |
- 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.
- 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.
NOUN► story· It is easy to let this feeling of tragedy overshadow his story, but that would be wrong. adjectiveshadowyshadowverbshadowovershadownounshadow 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 |