overcast
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
- An outcast.
- A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.
Adjective
- Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
- In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.
Verb
- To overthrow.
- To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
- To make gloomy; to depress.
- To be or become cloudy.
- To transform.
- To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
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