Gloom /(glo͡om)/

1. Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight.
2. A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove.

   Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks.

3. Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

   A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.

4. In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

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.

   [This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.

1. To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.

   A bow window . . . gloomed with limes.

   A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.

2. To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.

   Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy.

   What sorrows gloomed that parting day.