gloom
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Is gloom a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To be dark or gloomy.Examples: "Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way."; "Around all the dark forest gloomed."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.Examples: "Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed."; "Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something."; ""Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window."Synonyms: grieve, mourn, aggrieve, besorrow, condole, engrieve, erme, gloomintransitive
3. (transitive) To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.Examples: "A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air."transitive
4. (transitive) To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.Examples: "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, […]"; "Good Heaven! What ſorrows gloom'd that parting day, / That called them from their native walks away; […]"transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary