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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overgloom .
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Examples
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But at the height of the play's prosperity, while the Colonel clinked tumblers with Nelly, came a _contretemps_, and all the farce darkened swiftly to drama as the gay landscape is overgloomed by a thundercloud.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
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As soon, however, as his hunger was appeased, the king became morose and overgloomed again; the more so in proportion to the satisfaction he fancied he had previously manifested, and particularly on account of the deferential manner which his courtiers had shown towards Fouquet.
The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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