0 present participle of overshadow
1 to cause someone or something to seem less important or less happy:
Lower salience cues are harder to perceive and show reduced associative learning because of blocking and overshadowing.
Orientation and building forms have been designed to utilize solar energy and minimize overshadowing.
The larger scale apartment buildings and terraces are associated with the larger scale open spaces and are typically on an east/west orientation to minimize overshadowing of adjacent homes.
Partition historiography has been concerned with the interplay of national and communal ideologies in the 1940s, overshadowing this third trajectory of regional politics that was informed by provincial particularities.
But the procedure is now often considered to be a complete repair and, therefore, becomes a fundamental aim to be achieved in any complex disease, overshadowing any other option.
In such cases, the maintenance and expansion of their collections are frequently regarded as overshadowing individuals' social relationships unless, of course, these are with other collectors.
Verbal overshadowing of visual memories: some things are best left unsaid.
There must be adequate space between old and new buildings to avoid spoiling the amenity of neighbouring houses, for example, by overshadowing.
