loom
/lum/ verb C1- To appear indistinctly, e.g. when seen on the horizon or through the murk. · The clouds loomed over the mountains.
- To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; (of a person or thing) to tower; (of an idea) to impressively or intimidatingly occupy the mind; (of an event) to be imminent.
- To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.
He/she/it looms · Past loomed · Past participle loomed · -ing form looming
Verb forms
- Base form
- loom
- He/she/it
- looms
- Past
- loomed
- Past participle
- loomed
- -ing form
- looming
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The shape of some monstrous villainy, half seen, half guessed, loomed through the darkness which had girt me so long.
From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses.
See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and then blend once more into the cloud-bank.
Especially did the Queen’s class gird up their loins for the fray, for at the end of the coming year, dimly shadowing their pathway already, loomed up that fateful thing known as “the Entrance,” at the thought of which one and all felt their hearts sink into their very shoes.
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