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overshadow verb
/ˌəʊ.vəˈʃæd.əʊ/
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈʃæd.oʊ/ v [T often passive] Definition
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to cause someone or something to seem less important or less happyKaren has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.
My happiness was overshadowed by the bad news.
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(of a building) to be much taller than another building and therefore block the sun from itGrand Central Station in New York is overshadowed by the PanAm building.
(Definition of overshadow verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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