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overshadow

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Meaning

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.

Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness Source: Internet

This year's debt dwarfs that of last year Source: Internet

The tall tree overshadowed the house Source: Internet

Although Marshall took economics to a more mathematically rigorous level, he did not want mathematics to overshadow economics and thus make economics irrelevant to the layman. Source: Internet

Aksoy said that he expected Belgium to act with reason and to stay away from taking steps that will overshadow bilateral relations. Source: Internet

As a dynamic Vice President, Hoover would be too visibly the heir-apparent for 1928; certainly he would overshadow the Chief Executive in an embarrassing way. Source: Internet

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