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adjective

as in obscured

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overshadowed

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verb

past tense of overshadow
1
as in blurred
to make dark, dim, or indistinct large trees overshadow the yard and darken the house for much of the day

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2
as in outweighed
to be greater in importance than later you'll find that verbal skills overshadow any skills you have at video games

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Recent Examples of overshadowed
Adjective
Canada’s first-ever World Cup win was overshadowed yesterday when midfielder Ismaël Koné suffered a broken leg after a tackle that left teammates shaken and coach Jesse Marsch lamenting an injury that turned a night of celebration into one of anguish. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 June 2026 Oliver Bonk, the 22nd pick in the 2023 draft, may be the most overshadowed former first-round pick in recent Flyers history. — Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026 So the overshadowed former play has only been rarely seen. — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026 So, the overshadowed former play has only been rarely seen. — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026 Washington had long forfeited its campaign of aiding opposition forces that had become overshadowed by more radical elements. — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025 Meanwhile, the directors singled out shows like Aaron Sorkin’s Sports Night in 1999 (a year ahead of the Aaron Sorkin–Thomas Schlamme awards curve for The West Wing), the overshadowed–by–The Sopranos HBO drama Deadwood in 2004, and the cult hit Pushing Daisies in 2008. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2025
Verb
Birds fly over houses overshadowed by the mountain in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 10, 2026. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 8 July 2026 The triumph of their pioneering climb, however, was overshadowed by the pair’s disastrous descent. — Michael Loria, USA Today, 7 July 2026 South Korea's Kospi Index fell nearly 5% after memory chip giant Samsung Electronics dropped almost 7%, as concerns about future AI spending and demand overshadowed an 1,800% year-over-year jump in quarterly profit. — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 With the Federal Election Campaign Act in 1972, Congress had sought to reduce the amount of money in politics to protect ordinary voters from being overshadowed by the influence of wealthy donors. — Barbara McQuade, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 Even in the Phillies’ dramatic season arc, Wheeler is sometimes overshadowed. — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 6 July 2026 For decades, Holt’s contribution was overshadowed by her male contemporaries. — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026 That goal has been overshadowed by his suggestions that Washington might seize control of Greenland or that Canada could become America's 51st state. — CBS News, 1 July 2026 With England, Balogun may have been overshadowed by Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and a gifted Three Lions squad that currently has the fourth-best odds, at +700, to win the World Cup, according to DraftKings. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overshadowed
  1. obscured
  2. blurred
  3. outweighed
  4. darkened
  5. clouded
  6. dimmed
  7. obscure
  8. blackened
Adjective
  • On this year’s summer solstice, a group of volunteers gathered to tend to the obscured orchard atop one of the Figueroa Street Tunnels.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • For one thing, near-infrared light can pass through thin clouds, so an obscured sky wouldn't prevent communication.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 June 2026
Definition of obscured
Verb
  • As the model grew, the lines between genuine recommendation and paid promotion blurred, and audiences noticed.
    — Sophie Attwood, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Today, however, algorithmic feeds have increasingly blurred the boundaries between tween and adult style.
    — Sophie Lou Wilson, Vogue, 2 July 2026
Definition of blurred
Verb
  • Most of us, for instance, are not the oil company executives who were told about the effects of CO2 emissions back in the 1970s and decided that the threat to their business outweighed the threat to the planet.
    — Gabriel Winslow-Yost, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
  • However, the positives have increasingly outweighed the negatives throughout 2026, to the point where, at the time of writing, the game has a 74% positive score for reviews written in the past 30 days (of which there have been 951).
    — Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of outweighed
Adjective
  • This trend has been pretty pervasive among designer bags recently, with shoppers buying new Prada and Chanel bags with darkened leather to give them a used look, or sourcing vintage Celine bags with obvious signs of wear.
    — Irene Richardson, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • She’s talked up her push to convert darkened streetlights, many of them stripped of their copper wire, to solar power.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
Definition of darkened
Verb
  • Global foreign investment rose last year, the UN said Tuesday, but warned that this year’s outlook is clouded by trade policy uncertainty and geopolitical tensions.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 7 July 2026
  • Each features clouded bubbles to suggest aging, and the Air Max 90 takes the idea further with a distressed upper in the Infrared colorway.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
Definition of clouded
Adjective
  • One of the great aspects of my tablet is its lighting, whether it's being used in bright sunlight or on a dimmed plane.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 June 2026
  • The pleasantly buzzy ballroom, cast in semi-dimmed lighting, filled with excited chatter and clinking silverware, felt like a slightly unwieldy wedding reception.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 8 May 2026
Definition of dimmed
Adjective
  • Intentionally vague and obscure, the Daodejing would go on to inspire various interpretations ranging from philosophical reflections to how to realize the Dao in everyday practice.
    — Michael Naparstek, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
  • The end of legal slavery in New York should not be an obscure historical fact.
    — Tunisia Morrison, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026
Definition of obscure
Adjective
  • The land, unfenced, abuts a bald blackened hillside that must be public land.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Definition of blackened

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