Make less significant by comparison

Usage examples of overshadow.

However, the rare discovery of basketry and other organic material culture has been overshadowed by the fact that the earliest cultural occupations were dated by radiocarbon to approximately 16,000-17,000 years ago.

Now the subject suddenly leaped to such importance that it overshadowed the ball-game which Yale was to play against Princeton, and the coming boat-race at New London, in which the phenomenally popular Inza Burrage was to be the mascot of the Yale crew.

But he was completely overshadowed by a great, hazy golden figure with wide-spread wings that overfilled the doorway.

Even if there was a shift in the movement of creation, such as the overshadowing of one symbol, Napoleon, by another, Rothschild, more rooted in the money-dominated society of the second half of the nineteenth century, the core of the idea remained perfectly clear to the reader.

Now she wondered why, yet suspected that something about her overshadowing by Ashara was the cause.

As with the plumes of overshadowing wings, From its dark gulf of chains, Earth like an eagle springs.

All the years of overshadowing had left her with a distaste for the physical, and she was not certain she would ever overcome it.

The clean-shaven and somewhat rugged face was unmistakably that of a Scotchman, the thick waves of tawny hair overshadowing the wide brow, and the clear golden-brown eyes showed Brian at once that this could be no other than the father of his ideal.

But Adam and Eve, as they got closer to the cave, saw two fig trees, covered with fruit, and overshadowing the cave.

Won in youth to religion, she has cultivated my original qualities thus:- From the minute germ, natural affection, she has developed the overshadowing tree, philanthropy.

Fury as cold as the outer reaches of space rose up within Micah, overshadowing everything else.

Perhaps even overshadowing Zeno himself in popular esteem and in the annals of the empire.

SA 29, she remained a power behind the other Keepers, committing the crime of possessing them mentally and overshadowing them physically.

It was during this struggle against the overshadowing suspicion of the Dover Treaty that the Habeas Corpus Act was passed, and that Party took shape in England.

The other overshadowing fact was the evident decay of Spain, of the royal family as well as of the nation.