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Overshade

Overshade \O`ver*shade`\, v. t. [AS. ofersceadwian. See Over, and Shade, and cf. Overshadow.] To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.
--Shak.

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overshade

vb. To cast a shadow over, to overshadow.

Usage examples of "overshade".

Alucius expected the pinkish force to appear, but the manifestation of Talent that he felt was mainly purple, with but an overshade of pink, and felt even more evil.

The energy of the forge was what he would have called honest chaos, without the reddish overshades of the chaos-fire spewed forth by the white wizards.

The overshading foliage of other things will do them no harm, as it will be only for a season.

Her appreciation of the ridiculous was keen, and in all things she unerringly saw and felt, where it existed, the touch of sham, the overshading, the overtone.