0 past simple and past participle of overshadow
1 to cause someone or something to seem less important or less happy:
The ministry's need to maintain organizational viability overshadowed any desires to maintain amiable relations with banks.
By 1750 law enforcement was still overshadowed by the gallows, but it had acquired many refinements, not least in its preventative and investigative functions.
Overshadowed by conflicts over collective labour law, the political significance of this legislation has remained unexplored.
Under the influence of its heady seduction, performance values are often overshadowed and/or lost or frustrated by technological concerns.
However, symptoms of sudden or progressive hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo and other cranial neuropathies may be overshadowed by those from other metastases.
However, the company's financial position was overshadowed by low prices and non-payment by government agencies.
But most ecologists would agree that any territorial tendencies in human beings are far overshadowed by our nature as social animals.
These associations were not overshadowed by other cognitive or social risk factors, or by other relevant child temperament traits such as proneness to irritability.
