overshadow
verb [often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they overshadow | |
| he / she / it overshadows | |
| past simple overshadowed | |
| past participle overshadowed | |
| -ing form overshadowing |
- overshadow somebody/something
to make somebody/something seem less important, or successful 使顯得遜色；使黯然失色 He had always been overshadowed by his elder sister. 他與他姐姐相比總是相形見绌。 Domestic policy was soon overshadowed by political unrest abroad. 國内政策很快被國外的政治動蕩所掩蓋。
- overshadow something
to make an event less pleasant than it should be 使掃興；使蒙上陰影 - overshadow something
to throw a shadow over something 掩蓋；遮蔽
Word OriginOld English ofersceadwian (see over-, shadow).