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English
Etymology
From be- + gloom.
Verb
begloom (third-person singular simple present beglooms, present participle beglooming, simple past and past participle begloomed)
- (transitive, rare) To make gloomy; darken.
- (transitive, archaic) To sadden.
- Synonyms: deject, depress; see also Thesaurus:sadden
1864, John Rorke, Fancies on the photograph, a poem:No cold can chill them, and no fire consume
No light can daze, no darkness can begloom
Nor blank vacuity 'twixt orb and orb