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"text": "Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.",
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"text": "A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.",
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"ref": "a. 1930, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady:",
"text": "Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter XVI, in The Golden Bowl, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book first (The Prince), part third, page 283:",
"text": "\"Is Maggie then astonishing too?\"—and he gloomed out of his window.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 85:",
"text": "He gloomed for some moments above the round-topped table[.]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent."
],
"links": [
[
"sad",
"sad"
],
[
"sullen",
"sullen"
],
[
"despondent",
"despondent"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "grieve"
},
{
"word": "mourn"
},
{
"word": "be sad"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Letters”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 115:",
"text": "A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken."
],
"links": [
[
"obscure",
"obscure"
],
[
"darken",
"darken"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 110:",
"text": "For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC, page 20:",
"text": "Good Heaven! What ſorrows gloom'd that parting day, / That called them from their native walks away; […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer."
],
"links": [
[
"glimmer",
"glimmer"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɡluːm/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɡlum/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-uːm"
}
],
"word": "gloom"
}
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