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overcast
English
Etymology
From Middle English overcasten, equivalent to over- +? cast. Compare Swedish överkasta.
Pronunciation
- Adjective and noun
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ??v?-käst', IPA(key): /???v??k??st/
- (General American) enPR: ??v?r-k?st', IPA(key): /?o?v?.kæst/
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?'v?-käst?, IPA(key): /???v??k??st/
- (General American) enPR: ?'v?r-k?st?, IPA(key): /?o?v??kæst/
- Rhymes: -??st
Noun
overcast (plural overcasts)
- (obsolete) An outcast.
- A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon; cloudy.
Adjective
overcast (comparative more overcast, superlative most overcast)
- Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
- (figuratively) In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
Translations
Verb
overcast (third-person singular simple present overcasts, present participle overcasting, simple past and past participle overcast)
- (transitive, obsolete) To overthrow.
- (transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
- (transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To be or become cloudy.
- (transitive, obsolete) To transform.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
Translations
References
- overcast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- overcast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- overacts
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overpast
English
Etymology
over- +? past
Adjective
overpast (not comparable)
- (archaic) ended; having passed over or passed by
- Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima
- That the Princess had done with him, done with him for ever, remained the most vivid impression that Hyacinth had carried away from Madeira Crescent the night before.... He was overpast, he had become vague, he was extinct.
Anagrams
- postrave
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