Crossword Solver
Crossword Clue
Hidden Word
Word Meaning
Synonym
Anagram Solver
Find Word
Word Meaning
Find the meaning or definition of a english word
Submit
eclipses definition and meaning
n.
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.
n.
The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.
v. t.
To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.
v. t.
To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.
v. i.
To suffer an eclipse.
Crossword clues for eclipses
- Block sight of (sun)
- Blot out
- Celestial event
- In Quebec, lips easily outshine
- Lunar phenomenon
- Obscuring celestial event
- Outclass
- Overshadow
- Put in the shade
- Run rings around
- Surpass
- Blocks sight of (sun)
- outdoes
- Surpasses
Latest view
manation
cauter
quinoxaline
micro geological
tripes
skiffs
gabby
underthecounter
calmative
fluency
measelry
homerule
defending
circumstantiated
rapier like
rekey
crossword clue
airvents
cinnamon bear
meandering stream
Popular word
crossword clue
spectrum luminosity diagram
uret
horseweed
ent
oppugned
vesico
pasilaly
meta
send on
ear for music
sherlock
financial remuneration
unchivalrous
clanging
basi
any which way
burial case
schwann's white substance
nemato
Random word
Twittingly
Spenserian
Sacramentary
Lead
Predigestion
Harp
Octopus
Fatherland
Defile
Oophorectomy
Footboard
Gram
Hoful
Daguerrean
Somnambulic
Bourdon
Magnify
Disciplinarian
Mensurableness
Trade