0 past simple and past participle of eclipse
2 to make another person or thing seem much less important, good, or famous:
These land-based fortunes eclipsed other forms of accumulation of wealth in industry and finance.
Whatever the reason, research into music of the eighteenth century was eclipsed in terms of the number of publications, conferences and doctoral dissertations.
With electronic technology, the performer has been eclipsed, and inauthentic interpretations, even less so arrangements, are unwelcome and unnecessary.
One factor which may determine ' 'dominance' ' or cause a parallel grammar to be eclipsed, is the recognition of recursion.
But the reality of the situation was soon eclipsed by the power of the later legends.
In short, at more negative membrane potentials, synaptic facilitation is eclipsed by intrinsic responses, and thalamic bursting is observed only at low frequencies.
On the factory floor technocracy regularly eclipsed ideology.
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).
