A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.
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An apparatus for making thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles.
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A shadow or reflection.
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The indistinct and exaggerated appearance of something seen on the horizon or through fog or darkness.
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A frame or machine for interlacing at right angles two or more sets of threads or yarns to form a cloth.
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verb-intransitive
To appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form: "Stalin looms over the whole human tragedy of 1930-1933” ( Robert Conquest).
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To come into view as a massive, distorted, or indistinct image: "I faced the icons that loomed through the veil of incense” ( Fergus M. Bordewich). See Synonyms at appear.
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To seem imminent; impend: Revolution loomed but the aristocrats paid no heed.
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verb-transitive
To weave (a tapestry, for example) on a loom.
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verb
To appear in an impressively great or exaggerated form .
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To take shape as an impending occurrence.
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To come into sight in enlarged or distorted and indistinct form often as a result of atmospheric conditions.
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