Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make gloomy; darken.
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- verb archaic to
sadden
Etymologies
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be- + gloom
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Examples
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They did not "begloom" themselves to death-that do people fabricate!
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They did not "begloom" themselves to death -- that do people fabricate!
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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They did not “begloom” themselves to death — that do people fabricate!
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Industrious races find it a great hardship to be idle: it was a master stroke of ENGLISH instinct to hallow and begloom
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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