glooms

present tense third-person singular of gloom
1
as in glares
to look with anger or disapproval we just sat there, glooming, as we waited and waited for our dinners to arrive

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2
as in darkens
to take on a gloomy or forbidding look he continued to gloom over the fact that he had been passed over for promotion to district manager

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“Glooms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glooms. Accessed 6 May. 2024.

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