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Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloomed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Glooming}.]
1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or
sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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The black gibbet glooms beside the way. --Goldsmith.
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[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.
--Spenser.
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Gloom \Gloom\, v. t.
1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
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A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. --Walpole.
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A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. --Tennyson.
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2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
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Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
Your fancy. --Tennison.
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What sorrows gloomed that parting day. --Goldsmith.
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Gloom \Gloom\ (gl[=oo]m), n. [AS. gl[=o]m twilight, from the
root of E. glow. See {Glow}, and cf. {Glum}, {Gloam}.]
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1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the
gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
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2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
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Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. --Tennyson
.
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3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of
sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
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A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by
fits. --Burke.
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4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
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Syn: Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness;
depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See
{Darkness}.
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