Gloom (gl&oomac;m), n. [AS. gl&omac;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.
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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.
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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.
Tennyson.
What sorrows gloomed that parting day.
Goldsmith.
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