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

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

darkening

  • Cimmerian
  • abasing
  • adumbrating
  • angering
  • bastardizing
  • beclouding
  • bedimming
  • befogging
  • begriming
  • besmearing
  • besmirching
  • black
  • blackening
  • blacking out
  • bleak
  • blearing
  • blemishing
  • blotting out
  • blue
  • blurring
  • bristling
  • brooding
  • camouflaging
  • cheapening
  • cheerless
  • chill
  • cloaking
  • closing in
  • clouding
  • cloudy
  • cold
  • coloring
  • colorless
  • comfortless
  • concealing
  • corrupting
  • covering
  • curtaining
  • dark
  • debasing
  • debauching
  • degrading
  • dejected
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • depraving
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • dim
  • dimming
  • dire
  • dirtying
  • discoloring
  • discomfiting
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • discrediting
  • disgracing
  • disguising
  • disheartening
  • dishonoring
  • dislimning
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • distorting
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • dour
  • down
  • drab
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • droopy
  • dull
  • dusking
  • eclipsing
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • fading
  • fogging
  • forlorn
  • fouling
  • frowning
  • fuming
  • funereal
  • glaring
  • glooming
  • gloomy
  • glowering
  • glum
  • godforsaken
  • gray
  • grey
  • grim
  • hangdog
  • hazing
  • hiding
  • hopeless
  • inconsolable
  • intimidating
  • lamentable
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • louring
  • loury
  • low
  • lowering
  • lowery
  • lugubrious
  • marring
  • masking
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • misting
  • moping
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • negative
  • obliterating
  • obscuring
  • oppressive
  • overcasting
  • overclouding
  • overshadowing
  • perverting
  • pessimistic
  • petting
  • plaintive
  • plutonian
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • pouting
  • raging
  • sad
  • saturnine
  • scowling
  • screening
  • sepulchral
  • shading
  • shadowing
  • shaming
  • shrouding
  • sinking
  • smearing
  • smirching
  • smudging
  • smutting
  • soiling
  • solemn
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • spoiling
  • staining
  • staring
  • steaming
  • storming
  • subverting
  • sulking
  • sullen
  • sullying
  • sunless
  • tainting
  • tarnishing
  • tarring
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • threatening
  • touching
  • twisting
  • unhappy
  • upsetting
  • veiling
  • vitiating
  • waning
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • wretched

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

occulting

taking


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