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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloom \Gloom\ (gl[=oo]m), n. [AS. gl[=o]m twilight, from the root of E. glow. See {Glow}, and cf {Glum}, {Gloam}.] 1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. 2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. --Tennyson . 3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. --Burke. 4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven. Syn: Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression; melancholy; dejection; sadness. See {Darkness}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloom \Gloom\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gloomed}; p. pr & vb n. {Glooming}.] 1. To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer. 2. To become dark or dim; to be or appear dismal, gloomy, or sad; to come to the evening twilight. The black gibbet glooms beside the way --Goldsmith. [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom. --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloom \Gloom\, v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. --Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. --Tennyson. 2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. --Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day --Goldsmith. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gloom n 1: a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispell the gloom" [syn: {somberness}, {sombreness}] 2: a feeling of melancholy apprehension [syn: {gloominess}, {somberness}] 3: an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" [syn: {gloominess}, {glumness}]
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