overcast
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Synonyms: overfast, overpast, overmast, overcash, overpass, overcoat, overact, overcame, overcut, overfat, overcall
Antonyms: overfast, overpast, overmast, overcash, overpass, overcoat, overact, overcame, overcut, overfat, overcall
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Noun
- A [[cloud]] [[cover]]ing all of the [[sky]] from [[horizon]] to horizon.
- {{lb|en|obsolete}} An [[outcast]].
- {{lb|en|mining}} A place where one [[roadway]] crosses another, specifically where an [[airway]] was built across the top of another airway for [[ventilation]] purposes.
Adjective
- Covered with clouds; [[overshadow]]ed; [[darken]]ed; {{lb|en|meteorology}} more than 90% covered by clouds.
- {{lb|en|figuratively}} In a state of [[depression]]; [[gloomy]]; [[melancholy]].
Verb
- {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To [[overthrow]].
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[cover]] with [[cloud]]; to [[overshadow]]; to [[darken]].
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To make [[gloomy]]; to [[depress]].
- {{lb|en|intransitive|obsolete}} To be or become [[cloudy]].
- {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To [[transform]].
- {{lb|en|transitive|bookbinding}} To [[fasten]] (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
- {{lb|en|transitive}} {{rfdef|en}}
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