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n. - An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet. ²
n. - The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. ²
v. t. - To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun. ²
v. t. - To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing. ²
v. i. - To suffer an eclipse. ²

The word "eclipse" uses 7 letters: C E E I L P S.

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Words formed by adding one letter before or after eclipse (in bold), or to ceeilps in any order:
a -   calipees   especial   d -   eclipsed   pedicels   pedicles   m -   semplice   r -   preslice   resplice   s -   eclipses   x -   exciples  

Shorter words found within eclipse:
cee   cees   ceil   ceils   cel   cels   cep   cepe   cepes   ceps   cis   clepe   clepes   clip   clips   eel   eels   el   els   else   epic   epics   es   ice   ices   is   isle   lee   lees   lei   leis   li   lice   lie   lies   lip   lipe   lips   lis   lisp   pe   pec   pecs   pee   peel   peels   pees   peise   pele   peles   pes   pi   pic   pice   pics   pie   piece   pieces   pies   pile   piles   pis   plie   plies   psi   sec   see   seel   seep   sei   sel   sepic   si   sic   sice   sip   sipe   sleep   slice   slip   slipe   spec   specie   speel   speil   spic   spice   spiel   spile   splice  

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