eclipse

eclipse is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.
2. noun. The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.
3. transitive verb. To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.
4. transitive verb. To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.
5. intransitive verb. To suffer an eclipse.
6. noun. one celestial body obscures another

   Synonyms: occultation

7. verb. cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention

   "The Sun eclipses the moon today"

   "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"

   Synonyms: occult

8. verb. be greater in significance than

   "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness"

   Synonyms: dominate, overshadow

Synonyms

occultation, occult, dominate, overshadow

Common word forms

eclipsed, eclipser, eclipses, eclipsing

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