gloom
/ɡlum/ verb C2- To be dark or gloomy.
- To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
- To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
- To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
- To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
He/she/it glooms · Past gloomed · Past participle gloomed · -ing form glooming
Verb forms
- Base form
- gloom
- He/she/it
- glooms
- Past
- gloomed
- Past participle
- gloomed
- -ing form
- glooming
From the library
Now in the falling of the gloom
And come from out the cold and gloom
But the gloom of Lydia’s prospect was shortly cleared away; for she received an invitation from Mrs.
Their parties abroad were less varied than before; and at home she had a mother and sister, whose constant repinings at the dulness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance, by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.
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