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One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.
Helen Andelin

Meaning of "overshadow" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERSHADOW

overshadow  [ˌəʊvəˈʃædəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERSHADOW

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overshadow is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb overshadow in English.

WHAT DOES OVERSHADOW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overshadow in the English dictionary

The definition of overshadow in the dictionary is to render insignificant or less important in comparison. Other definition of overshadow is to cast a shadow or gloom over.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OVERSHADOW

PRESENT

Present
I overshadow
you overshadow
he/she/it overshadows
we overshadow
you overshadow
they overshadow
Present continuous
I am overshadowing
you are overshadowing
he/she/it is overshadowing
we are overshadowing
you are overshadowing
they are overshadowing
Present perfect
I have overshadowed
you have overshadowed
he/she/it has overshadowed
we have overshadowed
you have overshadowed
they have overshadowed
Present perfect continuous
I have been overshadowing
you have been overshadowing
he/she/it has been overshadowing
we have been overshadowing
you have been overshadowing
they have been overshadowing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I overshadowed
you overshadowed
he/she/it overshadowed
we overshadowed
you overshadowed
they overshadowed
Past continuous
I was overshadowing
you were overshadowing
he/she/it was overshadowing
we were overshadowing
you were overshadowing
they were overshadowing
Past perfect
I had overshadowed
you had overshadowed
he/she/it had overshadowed
we had overshadowed
you had overshadowed
they had overshadowed
Past perfect continuous
I had been overshadowing
you had been overshadowing
he/she/it had been overshadowing
we had been overshadowing
you had been overshadowing
they had been overshadowing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will overshadow
you will overshadow
he/she/it will overshadow
we will overshadow
you will overshadow
they will overshadow
Future continuous
I will be overshadowing
you will be overshadowing
he/she/it will be overshadowing
we will be overshadowing
you will be overshadowing
they will be overshadowing
Future perfect
I will have overshadowed
you will have overshadowed
he/she/it will have overshadowed
we will have overshadowed
you will have overshadowed
they will have overshadowed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been overshadowing
you will have been overshadowing
he/she/it will have been overshadowing
we will have been overshadowing
you will have been overshadowing
they will have been overshadowing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would overshadow
you would overshadow
he/she/it would overshadow
we would overshadow
you would overshadow
they would overshadow
Conditional continuous
I would be overshadowing
you would be overshadowing
he/she/it would be overshadowing
we would be overshadowing
you would be overshadowing
they would be overshadowing
Conditional perfect
I would have overshadow
you would have overshadow
he/she/it would have overshadow
we would have overshadow
you would have overshadow
they would have overshadow
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been overshadowing
you would have been overshadowing
he/she/it would have been overshadowing
we would have been overshadowing
you would have been overshadowing
they would have been overshadowing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you overshadow
we let´s overshadow
you overshadow
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to overshadow
Past participle
overshadowed
Present Participle
overshadowing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERSHADOW


alfredo
ælˈfreɪdəʊ
beshadow
bɪˈʃædəʊ
Colorado
ˌkɒləˈrɑːdəʊ
condo
ˈkɒndəʊ
dado
ˈdeɪdəʊ
dildo
ˈdɪldəʊ
foreshadow
fɔːˈʃædəʊ
libido
lɪˈbiːdəʊ
mondo
ˈmɒndəʊ
Orlando
ɔːˈlændəʊ
perdendo
peəˈdendəʊ
privado
prɪˈvɑːdəʊ
Ricardo
rɪˈkɑːdəʊ
saddo
ˈsædəʊ
secondo
sɛˈkɒndəʊ
shadow
ˈʃædəʊ
Toledo
tɒˈleɪdəʊ
UNIDO
juːˈniːdəʊ
unshadow
ʌnˈʃædəʊ
window
ˈwɪndəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERSHADOW

oversensitivity
overserious
overseriously
overservice
overset
oversetting
oversew
oversewn
oversexed
overshade
oversharp
overshine
overshirt
overshoe
overshoot
overshot
overshower
oversick
overside
oversight

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERSHADOW

bay window
black widow
bow window
casement window
drive-up window
eye shadow
five-o´clock shadow
meadow
out of the window
picture window
plate-glass window
rain shadow
rear window
rose window
sash window
shop window
show window
transfer window
water meadow
widow

Synonyms and antonyms of overshadow in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «OVERSHADOW»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «overshadow» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of overshadow

Translation of «overshadow» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERSHADOW

Find out the translation of overshadow to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overshadow from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overshadow» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

给…蒙上阴影
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

eclipsar
570 millions of speakers

English

overshadow
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تلقي بظلالها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

затмить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ofuscar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছায়াচ্ছন্ন করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

éclipser
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Membayangi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

überschatten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

影を落とす
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

그늘을 드리우다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngalahake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

che đậy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேலோங்கியே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दाटीवाटे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gölgelemek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

far passare in secondo piano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przyćmić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

затьмарити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

umbri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επισκιάσει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorskadu
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skugga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skygge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overshadow

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERSHADOW»

The term «overshadow» is regularly used and occupies the 70.300 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERSHADOW» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overshadow

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8 QUOTES WITH «OVERSHADOW»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word overshadow.
1
Helen Andelin
One of the greatest threats to your husband's position of priority would be if you were to earnestly pursue a career... If you finally reach a pinnacle of success, you would overshadow him and make him feel unimportant.
2
Sylvia Earle
Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with consequences that will greatly overshadow all the oil spills put together. The warming trend that is CO2-related will overshadow all the oil spills that have ever occurred put together.
3
Park Geun-hye
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
4
Jim McDermott
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
5
Kimi Raikkonen
In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.
6
Gregory David Roberts
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
7
Lela Rose
The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.
8
David Wilmot
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERSHADOW»

Discover the use of overshadow in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overshadow and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Overshadow
Life has returned to normal for Rae Davenport.
Brea Essex, 2012
2
Paradigms for Virtualization Based Host Security
Overshadow leverages this basic mechanism to cloak whole applications, cryptographically isolating application resources from the operating system. Figure 4.2 provides an overview of the Overshadow architecture. A single VM is depicted, ...
Tal Simeon Garfinkel, 2010
3
The Bible in the Syriac tradition
One such case is the Syriac Anaphora ascribed to St John Chrysostom (quite different from the Greek Anaphora under his name): May your Spirit and your Power overshadow this holy altar and sanctify its offerings; and may He hover and rest ...
Sebastian P. Brock, 2006
4
The Conclusion of the New Testament: Messages 079-098
The Spirit came to Mary for no other purpose than to overshadow her for the conceiving of Jesus. As the cloud overshadowed the Mount of Transfiguration ( Matt. 17:5) and the tabernacle (Exo. 40:34, 38), the power of the Most High ...
Witness Lee, 1986
5
Army Industrial Facilities: Workforce Requirements and ...
While the Army has made progress in establishing an automated process for analyzing and documenting personnel requirements, it is still faced with larger issues and factors that overshadow efforts to improve workload forecasting and ...
Barry Holman, 1998
6
Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: Twelve Drivers of ...
12. Do. Not. Let. Tactics. Overshadow. Strategies. Examples of not understanding this SCM Driver abound in business. Like Company D, which sued a $100 million customer over a $5,000 issue, and Company CC, which kept millions of ...
John T. Mentzer, 2004
7
Comparative Cognition : Experimental Explorations of Animal ...
Thus, although learning about features seemed to be much easier than learning about geometry on the two-dimensional task, the features did not overshadow learning about geometry. In a companion study to Kelly and Spetch (2004a), ...
Edward A. Wasserman Department of Psychology University of Iowa, Thomas R. Zentall Department of Psychology University of Kentucky, 2006
8
Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics in ...
PS *tPll "to overshadow" Hebr. salal "to be or grow dark" Aram, tslal "to overshadow" Akk. salalu "to overshadow" Ar. zalla "to shade, overshadow" Ug. tl " to overshadow" PS *ts^nn "to think, believe, assume, deem, consider" Ar. zanna " to think, ...
Yoel L. Arbeitman, Allan R. Bomhard, 1981
9
The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life: Essays ...
Only the other's lips can be touched with our own, only on the other can we lay our hands, rise actively above the other and "overshadow" all of him totally, " overshadow" him in every constituent feature of his existence, "overshadow" his body ...
Julia Spicher Kasdorf, 2008
10
Commentary on Isaiah
19 [4:5-6] Concerning these things he goes on to say: Then he will come, and asfor every place in Zion, and all that surrounds it, a cloud will overshadow it by day. And who it is that will come, another prophet presents, saying: “the Deliverer  ...
Eusebius of Caesarea, Joel C. Elowsky, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERSHADOW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overshadow is used in the context of the following news items.
1
French Baroque review: Acrobatics overshadow Australian …
French Baroque review: Acrobatics overshadow Australian Brandenburg Orchestra manoeuvres. Music. Date: July 26, 2015 - 12:59PM. (1); Read later ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
American detainees in Iran overshadow nuke deal
WASHINGTON – Renewed focus on four Americans detained in Iran looms as a potential impediment to congressional approval of an ... «The Daily News Journal, Jul 15»
3
USD rallies, stocks slip as weak flash PMI reports overshadow
US indices are flat so far to finish the week while European markets have been mixed and Asia Pacific indices fell overnight after Flash PMI ... «CMC Markets Site, Jul 15»
4
BP Q2 Earnings Preview: Lower Oil Prices To Overshadow
BP Plc. (NYSE:BP) is scheduled to announce its 2015 second quarter earnings on July 28. We expect lower crude oil prices to weigh ... «Trefis, Jul 15»
5
Marin Voice: El Niño may overshadow flood control battle
While the engineers from Marin County Flood Zone No. 9 wring their hands over the apparent “road blocks” being thrown up by San Anselmo ... «Marin Independent Journal, Jul 15»
6
American detainees held in Iran overshadow nuke deal
WASHINGTON — Renewed focus on four Americans detained in Iran looms as a potential impediment to congressional approval of an ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
7
Marketing 'characters' must not overshadow brand message warns …
The marketing boss of Budget Direct has warned that characters created to front advertising campaigns must not be allowed to overshadow the ... «MuMbrella, Jul 15»
8
Fan clashes overshadow Frankfurt's friendly
Preseason games are supposed to be a time for testing new players, tactics and returning to fitness. Sadly, Eintracht Frankfurt's game against ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
9
Kenya: Shebab, Security Overshadow Obama Kenya Visit
Questions of security will overshadow the trip as the Kenyan government tries to show the world that it has security under control... despite ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
10
Shebab, security overshadow Obama Kenya visit
Questions of security will overshadow the trip as the Kenyan government tries to show the world that it has security under control... despite ... «RFI, Jul 15»

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