Occult (Verb)
Meaning 1
Hide from view; "The lids were occulting her eyes".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- The window shade was occulting the sunlight from the room, casting a dim glow over the space.
- A tree branch was occulting the view of the license plate number on the passing car.
- The curtains were occulting the lower half of her face, making it difficult to recognize her.
- A cloud was occulting the moon, temporarily blocking its reflected light.
- The doorframe was occulting the view of the interior of the room from the hallway.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
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".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- A massive star will occult the light from a nearby planet in the distant galaxy tonight.
- The passing asteroid will occult the view of the ringed planet in our telescope.
- At exactly midnight, the large planet will occult a small star in the constellation of Andromeda.
- The newly discovered exoplanet will be briefly occulted by the light from its nearby parent star.
- A rare astronomical event occurs when the large dark moon occults the light from a nearby star, creating an artificial eclipse.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 3
Become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; "The beam of light occults every so often".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- The new skyscraper will occult the view of the park from our apartment window.
- During a lunar eclipse, the moon occults the light from the sun, turning day into night.
- The streetlights on the highway will occult one another at the bend in the road.
- The beam of light from the lighthouse will occasionally occult as it rotates.
- As the sun sets behind the mountain, it will occult from our line of sight.