- present tense form of gloom (3rd person singular).
glooms
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of glooms
Example Sentences
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Perhaps this is just the last defiant cry of a defeated Imperial-sponsored bounty hunter, determined to give our hero the glooms about her chances of victory before departing this mortal coil.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016
Long-term ideas of “destiny” are not easily assimilated to shorter-term glooms about the loss of American power and prestige.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2011
The energy crisis glooms over us all, as does the memory of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war that led to the closing of the canal and the rerouting of shipping round Africa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joey's thin, sad face glooms out of the card's corner as if he felt the same way.
From Time Magazine Archive
Day was coming again in the world outside, and far beyond the glooms of Mordor the Sun was climbing over the eastern rim of Middle-earth; but here all was still dark as night.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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