overcast
adjective
overspread or covered with clouds; cloudy.
have overcast
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present perfectof overcast.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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We all can recall disasters and disappointments which have overcast the spring, and tidings of achievement or deliverance which have been happily out of keeping with the melancholy beauty of autumn.
From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by George William Erskine Russell
One would think that it ought to have overcast the whole horizon of the future, even as it will overcast the whole horizon of the past.
From The Wrack of the Storm by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
If the whole sad truth had been unfolded, they would have had no heart for daily work; the cloud in the future would have overcast their souls.
From Pastor Pastorum by Rev. Henry Latham
