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- verb Present participle of
overshade .
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Examples
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Her appreciation of the ridiculous was keen, and in all things she unerringly saw and felt, where it existed, the touch of sham, the overshading, the overtone.
Chapter 34 2010
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Queen Zubaydah entered the garden one day and, coming to the swimming-bath, gazed upon its goodliness; and the sheen of the water and the overshading of the trees pleased her.
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Reduced radiation from overshading could mean reduced coffee yields.
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The overshading foliage of other things will do them no harm, as it will be only for a season.
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Her appreciation of the ridiculous was keen, and in all things she unerringly saw and felt, where it existed, the touch of sham, the overshading, the overtone.
Chapter 34 1904
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Her appreciation of the ridiculous was keen, and in all things she unerringly saw and felt, where it existed, the touch of sham, the overshading, the overtone.
The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896
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Injury from crowding and overshading may be prevented, or at least lessened, by pasturing the nurse crop with sheep for a time, at an early stage in its growth.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
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But where red clover grows much more vigorously than alfalfa the first season, it should not be thus sown in any considerable quantities, or the clover plants will injure the alfalfa plants by crowding and overshading.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
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It is full of wooded islands and rocky promontories projecting into the water and overshading it with their trees.
Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836
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So far, the markets don't seem that concerned though -- or, at least, other concerns are overshading Mr. Gross's move.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed DAVID BERMAN 2011
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