- (v.t.) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
- (n.) In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
- (n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest or of midnight.
- (n.) A shady, gloomy or dark place or grove.
- (n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
- (v.t.) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal or sullen.
- (v.i.) To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
- (v.i.) To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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