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Foreshadow vs Overshadow - What's the difference?

foreshadow | overshadow |

In lang=en terms the difference between foreshadow and overshadow

is that foreshadow is to presage, or suggest something in advance while overshadow is to dominate something and make it seem insignificant.

As verbs the difference between foreshadow and overshadow

is that foreshadow is to presage, or suggest something in advance while overshadow is to obscure something by casting a shadow.

foreshadow

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To presage, or suggest something in advance.
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
  • It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.

    overshadow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To obscure something by casting a shadow.
  • To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.