Syn. -- Darkness; dimness; obscurity; heaviness; dullness; depression;
melancholy; dejection; sadness. See Darkness.
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.
Gloom, v. t. 1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
A bow window . . . gloomed with limes.
Walpole.
A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.
Tennyson.