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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glooming \Gloom"ing\, n. [Cf. {Gloaming}.] Twilight (of morning or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day --Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. --Tennyson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloom \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: glooming adj : depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" [syn: {gloomy}, {gloomful}]
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