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Gloom (gl&oō_;m), n. [AS. gl&ō;m twilight, from the root of E. glow. See Glow, and cf. Glum, Gloam.]
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1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
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2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.
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Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .
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3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
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A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.
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4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.
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Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.
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Gloom, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glooming.] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
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2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight.
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The black gibbet glooms beside the way. Goldsmith.
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[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. Spenser.
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Gloom, v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
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A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole.
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A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.
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2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
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Such a mood as that which lately gloomed
Your fancy. Tennison.
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What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.
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