verb transitiveWord forms: ˌoverˈshaded or ˌoverˈshading
overshadow
overshade in American English
(ˌouvərˈʃeid)
transitive verbWord forms: -shaded, -shading
1.
to cast shade over
2.
to make dark or gloomy
Word origin
[1580–90; over- + shade]This word is first recorded in the period 1580–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classical, cockpit, humanist, reference, scrambleover- is a prefixal use of over, occurring in various senses in compounds (overboard; overcoat; overhang; overlap; overlord; overrun; overthrow), and especially employed, with the sense of “over the limit,” “to excess,” “toomuch,” “too,” to form verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and nouns (overact; overcapitalize; overcrowd; overfull; overmuch; oversupply; overweight), and many others, mostly self-explanatory: a hyphen, which is commonly absent fromold or well-established formations, is sometimes used in new coinages or in any wordswhose component parts it may be desirable to set off distinctly
Examples of 'overshade' in a sentence
overshade
A superiority naturally seems to overshade us, and presents a disagreeable comparison.
David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1738). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)