What does "overshadowing" mean?

A dominating shadow or malign influence.

Overshadowing

Common synonyms include: attention capture, bias, competition among cues, conditioning bias, conspicuous, cue competition.

noun, verb

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Noun

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A dominating shadow or malign influence.
"Such trials to a peaceful people, only enhance their love of peace; for the grief-stricken heart flees to retirement and tranquillity. At the overshadowings of such afflictions, I should never tremble for my country, much less should I despair […]"

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of overshadow form-of, gerund, participle, present

"There are no skyscrapers overshadowing the city anymore."