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Meaning overshadow meaning

What does overshadow mean?

overshadow

— verb be greater in significance than the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness — verb cast a shadow upon The tall tree overshadowed the house — verb (= dwarf) make appear small by comparison This year's debt dwarfs that of last year

Synonyms overshadow synonyms

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overshadow English » English

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Conjugation overshadow conjugation

How do you conjugate overshadow?

overshadow · verb

Examples overshadow examples

How do I use overshadow in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

But you overshadow everybody.
Otherwise the mountains will overshadow us.
Trying to overshadow my dynamic personality with some mud?
Man's desires must overshadow his needs.
She's not smart enough to overshadow you, is she?
These demonstrations that you have started against Western culture they've helped us overshadow other parties.
Your light overshadow everything It connects you shared destiny.
And the power from the most high will overshadow you.
They'll overshadow him.
For Lily and Vivian Charles, the reappearance of a daughter and niece was a life event that would eventually overshadow a 30-year-old betrayal and result in a splash of water, the roar of the crowd and a whirlwind tour around the world.
The pandemonium this'll create by graphically proving that Hunter is crooked, that'll overshadow everything.
You should not overshadow face of the Fatherland!
And he's not like, trying to, like overshadow the rest of the band.
I don't want to overshadow her, but it is so tough!
Furthermore, he points out that it will overshadow the playground of the St Joseph's Primary School.
I'd hate anything like that to overshadow everything he's done.
You're letting bad news overshadow good.
Why must you take over every situation and completely overshadow me?
The reverend means well, but like many of us, sometimes his lesser qualities overshadow his greater ones.
I know I'm not exactly a welcome houseguest these days, but we shouldn't let our recent history overshadow our past.
I don't want it to overshadow your day.
And as a result, your deepest fear came to pass. That their love for each other would overshadow their love for you.
Is this gonna completely overshadow my Turville jobs announcement, or what?
We were both determined to leave the castle and the trial far behind us, hopeful the distance would overshadow the questions that remained unanswered.
I don't want really. they're already very complex and I don't want the intricacies of the forest to really overshadow what they're wearing.
Well, you don't want to give Jane another chance to overshadow you, do you?
We simply can't allow the possibility that your dog will overshadow FDOTUS.
I think I let the idea of him overshadow the reality.
My father, I think I let the idea of him overshadow the reality.
Thank me? The reverend means well, but like many of us, sometimes his lesser qualities overshadow his greater ones.
Of course, but I wouldn't want it to overshadow the work that I'm doing.
That their love for each other would overshadow their love for you, turn it into hate.
The true travesty of this attack is that it has since come to overshadow the treaty whose purpose was to prevent exactly this type of violence.
Let's not let this overshadow our gains.
The unique event that would overshadow their everyday struggle.

News and current affairs

But the massive scale of the challenges facing Afghanistan should not overshadow the opportunities for positive change.
The EU's disunity over the war in Iraq should not overshadow its member states' agreement on almost all other great questions of international affairs.
Allowing preconceptions or emotional reactions to overshadow facts could make the situation much more dangerous.
These rhetorical devices must not overshadow careful analysis of the various options.
Overall, however, the undesirable effects of more variable and extreme weather are likely to overshadow any benefits.
Inventions from 1850 to 1900 may well overshadow those of the entire 20th century, but they were the result of a few inventors, such as Thomas Edison, who satisfied a small wealthy clientele.
Unfortunately, the damage is occurring quietly, enabling political interests to overshadow any sense of urgency about the need to redress the global economy's intensifying problems.
In any case, the political consequences overshadow legal or bureaucratic issues.
But such uncertainty, common in times of transition, should not overshadow what the end of the Blair-Bush era in Britain holds in store.
Indeed, their contribution to rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere is beginning to overshadow the other problems.
The difference is ultimately minor, and should not be allowed to overshadow what is really at stake: democratic self-governance in an age of high public debt.
Unfortunately, that controversy may also overshadow the incipient changes in French policy.
But, even then, the humanitarian consequences - especially in the case of another Middle East war - would most likely overshadow these scenarios' impact on the European crisis.
Thus does the fight over sovereignty overshadow all bilateral issues.
That observation should not, however, overshadow fundamental economic insights - specifically, that trade and the location of production are determined by comparative, not absolute, advantage.

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