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say it: i-KLIPS
eclipse is a verb and noun meaning "be greater in significance than". It is pronounced /ɪˈklɪps/ — i-KLIPS. It carries 3 recorded senses.
be greater in significance than
“the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness”
cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention
“The Sun eclipses the moon today”
“Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies”
one celestial body obscures another
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for eclipse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.