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What (who) is overshadow - definition
overshadow
(overshadows, overshadowing, overshadowed)
1.
If an unpleasant event or feeling overshadows something, it makes it less happy or enjoyable.
Fears for the President's safety could overshadow his peace-making mission...
= cloud
VERB: V n
2.
If you are overshadowed by a person or thing, you are less successful, important, or impressive than they are.
Hester is overshadowed by her younger and more attractive sister.
= eclipse
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed
3.
If one building, tree, or large structure overshadows another, it stands near it, is much taller than it, and casts a shadow over it.
She said stations should be in the open, near housing, not overshadowed by trees or walls.
VERB: V-ed
overshadow
v. a.
1.
Overshade, overcloud.
2.
Shelter, protect, cover, hover over.
Examples of use of overshadow
1. Here, expectations rival _ or even overshadow _ reality.
2. Her straining gown threatened to overshadow the event, however.
3. Somehow national policies, culture and business overshadow globalization.
4. Moscow‘s unrelenting objections to the proposed missile shield overshadow everything.
5. But many fear the terror arrests will overshadow those efforts.