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What does overshadow mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To obscure something by casting a shadow.
  2. (transitive) To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.
  3. (transitive) To shelter or protect.
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Britain seems unable to escape the ghosts of Victorian engineers and Victorian novelists who so gloomily overshadow our own productions.
Yesterday's bad-tempered exchange threatened to overshadow what should have been a constructive insight into the state of broadband in Britain.
I really don't want to dwell on it because I don't want to overshadow the courageousness of the way the team played.
If a child is born with spina bifida or pyloric stenosis, the surgical needs of the infant may overshadow all other concerns.
Alain Locke's role as a general factotum of the Harlem Renaissance has tended to overshadow the full dimensions of an active and productive life.
Henry VIII and Elizabeth I tend to dominate Tudor history and their lives do overshadow the importance of Henry VII's reign.

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