overcast
adjective
overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy.
had overcast
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past perfectof overcast.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A light breeze had overcast the stars with thin and fleecy clouds.
From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
A heavy bank of cloud had overcast the moon, and the packet melted from sight in a blur of darkness.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The black cloud that had overcast the captain's countenance at the impertinence of her action melted slowly away into a genial smile.
From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Albert Rhys Williams
A cloud had overcast the despot’s brow, for “Boro Winkee,” his favourite war-steed, had that morning fallen down dead whilst exercising in the meadow.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
For this discovery had overcast the happiness of his wooing as a thunder-cloud darkens and blots the smiling life out of a fair valley.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
