eclipsing

The word “eclipsing” has 3 syllables: e-clip-sing

It's pronounced as /ɪˈklɪpsɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for eclipsing?

In the thesaurus, “eclipsing” has 51 synonyms and 2 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for eclipsing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for eclipsing

  • beating
  • besting
  • bettering
  • clobbering
  • conquering
  • crushing
  • defeating
  • drubbing
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • going one better
  • licking
  • mastering
  • one-upping
  • outbalancing
  • outclassing
  • outcompeting
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outgunning
  • outmatching
  • outpacing
  • outperforming
  • outracing
  • outrunning
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • outweighing
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpassing
  • overshadowing
  • overtopping
  • routing
  • running circles around
  • running rings around
  • shaming
  • skunking
  • subduing
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • thrashing
  • topping
  • transcending
  • trimming
  • trouncing
  • trumping
  • walloping
  • whipping
  • worsting

Antonyms for eclipsing

Meanings of eclipsing

  • verb
    1. Of astronomical bodies, to cause an eclipse.
    2. To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
    3. (Irish grammar) To undergo eclipsis.
  • noun
    1. The act or process by which something is eclipsed.

Example Sentences

  • The new skyscraper is quickly eclipsing the skyline of the city.
  • Her achievements are eclipsing those of her peers in the field of science.
  • The rising star's popularity is eclipsing that of established celebrities.
  • The comet's brightness is slowly eclipsing that of the nearby stars.
  • The team's winning streak is eclipsing records set by previous championship teams.

On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to eclipsing, such as: beating, besting, bettering, clobbering, conquering, crushing, defeating.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

obscuring

  • abashing
  • abashment
  • addling
  • adumbrating
  • agitation
  • beclouding
  • bedimming
  • befogging
  • befuddlement
  • befuddling
  • belying
  • bemusement
  • bewilderment
  • blackening
  • blanketing
  • blearing
  • blocking
  • blotting out
  • blurring
  • burying
  • camouflaging
  • chagrin
  • cloaking
  • clouding
  • cluttering
  • commotion
  • concealing
  • confounding
  • covering
  • curtaining
  • darkening
  • demoralization
  • dimming
  • disarranging
  • discomfiting
  • discomfiture
  • disguising
  • dislimning
  • disorientation
  • distraction
  • disturbing
  • dither
  • dumbfounding
  • eclipsing
  • embarrassing
  • embarrassment
  • embroiling
  • enshrouding
  • flap
  • fluster
  • fogging
  • gilding
  • hazing
  • hiding
  • lather
  • masking
  • misting
  • mixup mystification
  • obliterating
  • obstructing
  • occluding
  • occulting
  • overcasting
  • overclouding
  • overshadowing
  • papering over
  • perplexing
  • perplexity
  • perturbation
  • pother
  • puzzlement
  • screening
  • shading
  • shadowing
  • shrouding
  • smothering
  • stew
  • stirring up
  • suppressing
  • tangling
  • tumult
  • turbulence
  • turmoil
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • varnishing
  • veiling
  • whitewashing

walloping

  • Brobdingnagian
  • Bunyanesque
  • Himalayan
  • annihilating
  • assailing
  • assault
  • assaulting
  • astronomic
  • astronomical
  • attack
  • attacking
  • august
  • banging
  • barbarity
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • battery
  • batting
  • beaning
  • beating
  • beating the pants off
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belting
  • besetting
  • besting
  • bettering
  • biffing
  • big
  • birching
  • blackjacking
  • blowing away
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bombing
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • boundless
  • boxing
  • braining
  • breaking
  • brobdingnagian
  • browbeating
  • brutality
  • buffeting
  • bulky
  • bulldozing
  • bullying
  • bumper
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunging up
  • bunting
  • burying
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • capping
  • cavernous
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • colossal
  • conking
  • conquering
  • considerable
  • cosmic
  • cosmical
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • creaming
  • crippling
  • crushing
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • cyclopean
  • damage
  • decking
  • destroying
  • detriment
  • dispatching
  • doing
  • doing in
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • dusting
  • eating alive
  • eclipsing
  • elephantine
  • enormous
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • extensive
  • felling
  • fibbing
  • finishing
  • flagellating
  • flailing
  • flattening
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • flourishing
  • force
  • formidable
  • foul play
  • frenzy
  • fury
  • fustigating
  • galactic
  • gargantuan
  • giant
  • gigantesque
  • gigantic
  • good
  • goodly
  • goring
  • grand
  • grandiose
  • great
  • gross
  • hammering
  • handsome
  • hanging one on
  • harm
  • hectoring
  • hefty
  • herculean
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hiding
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • huge
  • hulking
  • humongous
  • humungous
  • hurdling
  • hurt
  • immeasurable
  • immense
  • impairment
  • imposing
  • infinite
  • injury
  • jabbing
  • jostling
  • jumbo
  • kicking
  • king-size
  • king-sized
  • kneeing
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • lacerating
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • lamming
  • largish
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • leviathan
  • licking
  • lofty
  • maiming
  • majestic
  • major
  • mammoth
  • mangling
  • massive
  • massy
  • mastering
  • mastodonic
  • mauling
  • mayhem
  • mega
  • mighty
  • monolithic
  • monster
  • monstrous
  • monumental
  • mountainous
  • mutilating
  • mutilation
  • nailing
  • nosing out
  • oceanic
  • onslaught
  • outbreak
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outrage
  • outshining
  • outsize
  • outsized
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overgrown
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • oversize
  • oversized
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • paddling
  • paroxysm
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • pharaonic
  • pipping
  • pistol-whipping
  • planetary
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pounding
  • prodding
  • prodigious
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • punching out
  • pushing
  • pythonic
  • rabbit-punching
  • rage
  • raiding
  • rampage
  • rapping
  • rawhiding
  • revolt
  • riot
  • roughing
  • routing
  • running circles around
  • running rings around
  • rupture
  • rushing
  • sapping
  • savagery
  • scoring
  • scourging
  • scuffing
  • shellacking
  • shock
  • shoving
  • sinking
  • sizable
  • sizeable
  • skinning
  • skulling
  • skunking
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • slating
  • slaughtering
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • smiting
  • smoking
  • smothering
  • snowing under
  • socking
  • spanking
  • spearing
  • stabbing
  • staggering
  • stamping
  • storm
  • storming
  • strapping
  • striking
  • stroking
  • strong-arming
  • stupendous
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • substantial
  • succeeding
  • sucker punching
  • super
  • super-duper
  • supersize
  • supersized
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • swatting
  • sweeping
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • taking
  • tanning
  • tapping
  • terror
  • thrashing
  • threat
  • threshing
  • throwing
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tidy
  • titanic
  • topping
  • towering
  • transcending
  • tremendous
  • trimming
  • tromping
  • trouncing
  • tumult
  • turbulence
  • upending
  • upheaval
  • uproar
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • vast
  • vasty
  • violence
  • voluminous
  • waxing
  • whacking
  • whale of a
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • wiping the floor with
  • wiping the ground with
  • working over
  • worsting
  • wounding
  • zapping

occulting

veiling

  • beclouding
  • bedimming
  • befogging
  • belying
  • blanketing
  • blind
  • blocking
  • blotting out
  • bosoming
  • bowering
  • burying
  • camouflaging
  • circling
  • circumfusing
  • cloak
  • cloaking
  • clouding
  • cocooning
  • coloring
  • concealing
  • cover
  • covering
  • curtain
  • curtaining
  • darkening
  • disguising
  • draping
  • eclipsing
  • embedding
  • embosoming
  • embowering
  • embracing
  • encasing
  • encircling
  • enclosing
  • encompassing
  • enfolding
  • enlacing
  • enshrouding
  • enswathing
  • enveloping
  • enwinding
  • enwrapping
  • facade
  • false front
  • film
  • front
  • gilding
  • going underground
  • guise
  • hiding
  • imbedding
  • inclosing
  • investing
  • involving
  • lapping
  • mantilla
  • mantling
  • mask
  • masking
  • muffling
  • obscuring
  • obstructing
  • occluding
  • occulting
  • out of sight
  • overcasting
  • overlaying
  • overshadowing
  • overspreading
  • papering over
  • screen
  • screening
  • shade
  • shading
  • shroud
  • shrouding
  • smothering
  • suppressing
  • swaddling
  • swathing
  • varnishing
  • whitewashing
  • wrapping

eating alive

  • annihilating
  • beating
  • beating the pants off
  • besting
  • bettering
  • blowing away
  • bombing
  • breaking
  • burying
  • capping
  • clobbering
  • conquering
  • creaming
  • crushing
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • doing in
  • drubbing
  • dusting
  • eclipsing
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • flourishing
  • hurdling
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • licking
  • mastering
  • nosing out
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • pasting
  • pipping
  • routing
  • running circles around
  • running rings around
  • scoring
  • shellacking
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • slaughtering
  • smoking
  • smothering
  • snowing under
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • succeeding
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sweeping
  • taking
  • thrashing
  • throwing
  • topping
  • transcending
  • trimming
  • tromping
  • trouncing
  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • waxing
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • wiping the floor with
  • wiping the ground with
  • worsting

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