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overcast

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Noun

  1. A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
  2. An outcast.
  3. A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.

Adjective

  1. Covered with clouds; overshadowed; darkened; (meteorology) more than 90% covered by clouds.
  2. In a state of depression; gloomy; melancholy.

Verb

  1. To overthrow.
  2. To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
  3. To make gloomy; to depress.
  4. To be or become cloudy.
  5. To transform.
  6. To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.

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