0 past simple and past participle of eclipse
2 to make another person or thing seem much less important, good, or famous:
But most of these ordinances have been eclipsed by the new national law, which subjects far more kinds of information to disclosure.
This is not to say that its central importance had been eclipsed, however.
Yet its structural ingenuity is eclipsed by the frenzied ferocity of the music.
It might also be said that the old centre had been segmented and expanded rather than effaced or eclipsed.
Ironically, however, the graphics community has vastly eclipsed that of "design and manufacturing" in its ability set metrics for itself and achieve them.
Perhaps it was conceptually so remarkable to change the gender of the superhuman ideal that race was simply eclipsed.
The truth is that classical music programming on television has been largely eclipsed.
They have been consistently eclipsed by small business loans (more than 40%), and with housing loans (rising from 18.7% in 1977 to 26.2% in 1981).
