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Eclipsed

Eclipse \E*clipse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eclipsed ([-e]*kl[i^]pst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Eclipsing.]

  1. To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.

  2. To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing. ``His eclipsed state.''
    --Dryden.

    My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.
    --Shak.

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eclipsed

vb. (en-past of: eclipse)

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Eclipsed (album)

Eclipsed is the second studio album by Fellowship Creative. Fair Trade Services alongside Columbia Records released the album on January 29, 2016.

Eclipsed (play)

Eclipsed is a 2015 play written by Danai Gurira. It takes place in 2003 and tells the story of five Liberian women and their tale of survival near the end of the Second Liberian Civil War. It became the first play with an all-black and female creative cast and team to premiere on Broadway.

Eclipsed opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in October 2015 with positive reviews and ran until November 2015. The following year, it transferred to Broadway the John Golden Theatre with an opening on March 6, 2016.

Usage examples of "eclipsed".

On the farside, when supergiant and planet were in an inferior conjunction, and the hellish red cloudscape eclipsed the nearside’s brief glimpse of the sun.

She consulted her bitek processor block, and the visualization of the Zamjan eclipsed the image from the eagles.

It is the coming of an immortal penumbra as Lalonde is eclipsed by a force before which nature trembles in fear.

She could barely make out the non-rotational spaceport, an eclipsed crescent with the funereal red mist of the disk swirling around its edges.

The docking bays, normally the focus of frantic time-pressure maintenance efforts, were shut down and lightless, leaving the curving ebony hulls of Adamist starships half-hidden in their eclipsed metal craters.

It was rapidly eclipsed as the massive Tyrathca ship positioned itself directly overhead.

The only clue to their existence an observer might have had was when they occasionally eclipsed a distant star.

From his position the huge disk eclipsed most of the sun’s surface, with a tide of crimson light appearing to sweep up over the rim, as if it was sinking into an ooze of photons.

But while the deluge eclipsed him he was down the rest of the stairs and out - in three or four panicked paces - into the freezing air of the street.

His undamaged hand clawed the sandy earth as he remembered the softness of her bronze skin, the smell of shoulder-length locks, the way her black pupils eclipsed the color of dark brown irises when she looked deeply into his mind.

Neither woman was giggling now, as their own thoughts eclipsed their mirth.

Damali's irises were now totally eclipsed by her pupils, as the Amazon's green orbs peered into them.

It was coming from outside the cave, and in seconds a huge black snakehead eclipsed the moon.

And in that same sky, as though to suggest that this was a world of perpetual twilight, teetering always on the edge of darkness and extinction, was a sun that was three-quarters eclipsed by an exquisitely rendered moon, the latter painted so cunningly it seemed to have real mass, real roundness, as it slid over the face of the day-star.

Overhead, the sun remained eclipsed, though he knew there was no possible way to see the sky from this deep a place in the house.