Crossword clues for overshadowed
overshadowed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overshadow \O`ver*shad"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overshadowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Overshadowing. ] [Cf. Overshade. ]
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To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.
There was a cloud that overshadowed them.
--Mark ix. 7. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence; to be viewed as more important than.
--Milton.To cause to be sad or disappointing; to cast a sad shadow on; as, an accidental death overshadowed the joy of the festival.
Wiktionary
superseded by, covered up by, overtaken or eclipsed v
(past participle of overshadow English)
Usage examples of "overshadowed".
To Mikhail, such an action was unthinkable, but he knew that Ashara Alton had overshadowed not only Marguerida, but numerous other women during the centuries since her death.
It was different from the way she had felt when she was overshadowed by Ashara, similar and dissimilar at the same time.
Their minds might be overshadowed, but something of their wills remained, or they would not be able to work at all, Mikhail realized.
Only that for all that time his own matrix had been overshadowed, so that he could not touch it without seeing that ravaging form of fire— but the servant’s words made him angry again.
And then he remembered that there was another matrix, and one within his own reach, which had been overshadowed by Sharra.
Still somewhat dazed at the destruction which had overshadowed his dramatic gesture of giving up his weapons, Beltran knelt and spoke the ritual words.
The rest of her lingered in her tower in Thendara, and we know that she overshadowed several Keepers from time to time.
Istvana had told her that this was part of the spell Ashara Alton had put on her when she had overshadowed the child Margaret, and she bit her lip, because she hated the sense of separation.
At least, when Istvana told me she had overshadowed other women, I leaped to the premise that she was anticipating my existence—which she somehow knew was a threat to her own.
To begin with, the spaceport was overshadowed by the jagged, glowing peaks of Alioth's active continental spine.
Robinton felt sorry for the Smith, quietly perfecting an ingenious means of communication only to have it overshadowed by Thread-eating miniature dragons.
His personality overshadowed the similarities of coloring and facial structure.
The physical awareness, the passion between them, was so intense, it overshadowed every sensual experience he’d had before her— but it wasn’t enough.
Everyone in her family was outstanding in some way, and she tended to fade into the background, overshadowed by their more exuberant personalities.
It wasn't their fault that Claire had always felt overshadowed by them.