Definitions for eclipse

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eclipse e·clipse

Spelling: [ih-klips]

IPA: /ɪˈklɪps/

Eclipse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in eclipse (ceeilps).

Definitions for eclipse

noun

1. Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
2. any obscuration of light.
3. a reduction or loss of splendor, status, reputation, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to undergo eclipse:
2. to make less outstanding or important by comparison; surpass:

Origin of eclipse

1250-1300; Middle English eclips(e), clips Anglo-French, Old French eclipse Latin eclīpsis Greek ékleipsis, equivalent to ekleíp(ein) to leave out, forsake, fail to appear (see Examples for eclipse

After Lucretia's win in the eclipse, Porter did not land another race.

Why has this ritual remained so cherished, indeed foundational, while so many other ancient commandments have fallen into eclipse?

Downey grew up in the shadow of his father, the Irish tenor Morton Downey, and vowed to eclipse his fame one day.

That's what The Twilight Saga: eclipse sounds like when it's up to the clever Bad Lip Reading folks.

You are to buy The Dutchman as cheap as you can, and run him as your own horse in the eclipse.

"You should have come in time, then, and seen the eclipse," said the Virginian.

Once 2007 rolled along, Kardashian's Ray J sex tape catapulted her to fame, helping her eclipse her former employer.

Tracking is for an opening weekend that could eclipse $100 million.

If they were to have their will, all power was to be in their hands; their fame was to eclipse all other.

It would never do to let the Grahams eclipse the Lockwoods, you see.