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1. eclipse
noun. ['ɪˈklɪps, əˈklɪps, iːˈklɪps'] one celestial body obscures another.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- eclipsis (Latin)
- ἔκλειψις (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
Rhymes with Eclipse
- microchips
- outstrips
- strips
- strip's
- scripts
- scripps
- scripp's
- equips
- whips
- whipps
- trips
- trip's
- tripp's
- thrips
- snips
- slips
- skips
- quips
- grips
- flips
- ellipse
- drips
- dripps
- crips
- cripps
- blips
- zips
- tips
- tipps
- sips
How do you pronounce eclipse?
Pronounce eclipse as ɪˈklɪps.
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How do you spell eclipse? Is it eclispe ?
A common misspelling of eclipse is eclispe
Sentences with eclipse
1. Verb, base form
Consider everything you eat over the course of the day and you can easily eclipse your daily quota.
Quotes about eclipse
1. He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.
- Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
2. The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.
- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
3. I fell in love with you in a hurry, like you were going somewhere fast - which you did. You came and went like an earthquake, like some sort of eclipse. I've spent hours, days, months, years missing you. But then something strange happened, and now I can't remember why I ever loved you at all. You didn't deserve it. I should have loved me more.
- Christina Hart
2. eclipse
verb. ['ɪˈklɪps, əˈklɪps, iːˈklɪps'] cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- eclipsis (Latin)
- ἔκλειψις (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
3. eclipse
verb. ['ɪˈklɪps, əˈklɪps, iːˈklɪps'] be greater in significance than.
Synonyms
Etymology
- eclipsis (Latin)
- ἔκλειψις (Ancient Greek (to 1453))