overshade

American  

[oh-ver-shayd] / ˌoʊ vərˈʃeɪd /

verb (used with object)

overshaded, overshading

1. to cast shade over.

2. to make dark or gloomy.

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Etymology

Origin of overshade

First recorded in 1580–90; over- + shade

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Example Sentences

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overshade overshaded overshading

We left the bright green fields that belt around Manor Hamilton and the grand trees that overshade the same green fields, and drove up among the hills, in a contrary direction from Glenade.

From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall

And Echo was mute to his leisurely tread,— "How tranquil is nature reposing," he said; He onward advances, where boughs overshade, "How lonely," quoth he—and his footsteps he stayed!

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson

Suckers should not be allowed to overshade the graft, though it is best not to remove them until danger of disturbing the graft is past.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

A superiority naturally seems to overshade us, and presents a disagreeable comparison.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Yet still the veil I must obey, Which, whatsoe'er the aspect of the day, Thine eyes' fair radiance hides, my life to overshade.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell

Opposite to the house where Charlotte's parents lived, was a little opening, ornamented with a grass-plot, and overshaded by a venerable tree, commanding an extensive view before it.

From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by John Bewick

Farther down we came to two copious springs, most picturesquely situated among the rocks, being overshaded by large wild fig-trees, a great number of which grow in other parts of this district.

From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by John Lewis Burckhardt

Then came the avenue, entirely overshaded with trees as old as Noah, and everywhere on the hill, forming the background of the picture, an immense park.

From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

I instantly accepted his offer; and, bidding adieu to my friends at the parsonage, followed him down to a small creek overshaded by tall trees, where, concealed among the reeds and bushes, lay the canoe.

From Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

They sat by the roadside on a leafy bank overshaded with cool branches, and, producing the reduplication of the Barrie stores procured the night before at Collingwood, proceeded to lunch al fresco.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

Her appreciation of the ridiculous was keen, and in all things she unerringly saw and felt, where it existed, the touch of sham, the overshading, the overtone. 

From The Sea Wolf by Jack London

The overshading foliage of other things will do them no harm, as it will be only for a season.

From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood

Their degradation made him ready to endure all things if only he could pierce the black cloud overshading them.

From A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 by Elisabeth G. Stryker

It is full of wooded islands and rocky promontories projecting into the water and overshading it with their trees.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant

Finding some coffee beans, as they call them here, upon the grave, and which grew upon a tree overshading it, I secured them for a memento.

From My First Campaign by J. W. Grant

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