I never intended to overshadow her accomplishments.
Source: tatoeba (6841018)
Overshadow
//ˌəʊ.vəˈʃæd.əʊ//
Synonyms for "overshadow" (104 found)
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2 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 25 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κατασκιάζω verb (to cast a shadow over something)
Arabic
1 entries- غَطَّى verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Bulgarian
2 entries- засенчвам verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- засенчвам verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Catalan
2 entries- eclipsar verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- fer ombra verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 使相形見絀 /使相形见绌 verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- 使黯然失色 verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Czech
2 entries- zastínit verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- zastínit verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Danish
2 entries- overskygge verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- overskygge verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Dutch
1 entries- overschaduwen verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Esperanto
2 entries- eklipsi verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- ombri verb (to cast a shadow over something)
Finnish
2 entries- jättää varjoonsa verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- varjostaa verb (to cast a shadow over something)
French
2 entries- ombrager verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- éclipser (la gloire, une personne) verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Georgian
1 entries- გადაფარავს verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
German
2 entries- überschatten verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- überschatten verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Hungarian
4 entries- beárnyékol verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- elhomályosít verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- felülmúl verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- háttérbe szorít verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Icelandic
1 entries- yfirskyggja verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Irish
2 entries- sarú verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- scáil a chaitheamh ar verb (to cast a shadow over something)
Latin
2 entries- obumbrō verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- umbrō verb (to cast a shadow over something)
Middle English
3 entries- obumbren verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- obumbren verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- overschadwen verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Norwegian
2 entries- overskygge verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- overskygge verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Polish
4 entries- ocieniać verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- ocienić verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- zaćmiewać verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- zaćmić verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Portuguese
2 entries- eclipsar verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- ofuscar verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Russian
4 entries- заслоня́ть verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- заслоня́ть verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- затмева́ть verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- затмева́ть verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zasjeniti verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- zasjeniti verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Spanish
4 entries- asombrar verb (to cast a shadow over something)
- deslucir (ocasión) verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- eclipsar (persona, éxito) verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
- ensombrecer verb (to cast a shadow over something)
Swedish
1 entries- överskugga verb (to dominate something and make it seem insignificant)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The English teacher's insensitive comments overshadow the progress and achievements of foreign learners.
Source: tatoeba (11768568)
While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.
Source: wiktionary
A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as "cliff lifts," which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.
Source: wiktionary
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