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verb-intransitive. 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.

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).

verb-intransitive. To seem imminent; impend: Revolution loomed but the aristocrats paid no heed.

n. A distorted, threatening appearance of something, as through fog or darkness.

n. An apparatus for making thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles.

v. To weave (a tapestry, for example) on a loom.

n. loon (bird of order Gaviformes)

v. to impend; to threaten or hang over

n. A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.

n. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making

n. That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock

n. See loon, the bird.

n. A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.

n. That part of an oar which is near the grip or handle and inboard from the rowlock.

verb-intransitive. To appear above the surface either of sea or land, or to appear enlarged, or distorted and indistinct, as a distant object, a ship at sea, or a mountain, esp. from atmospheric influences

verb-intransitive. To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense.

verb-intransitive. To become imminent; to impend.

n. The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.

n. A utensil; a tool; a weapon; an article in general: now used only in composition, as in heir-loom, workloom, etc. See heirloom.

n. A machine for weaving any fabric from yarn or thread.

n. The part of an oar between the blade and the handle; the shaft.

n. A chimney.

To weave.

To shine.

Specifically To appear indistinctly; come dimly into view, as from below the horizon or through a mist; rise up before the vision so as to give the impression of indistinct bulk or largeness: stand out prominently in the prospect: often used figuratively.

n. A coming indistinctly or vaguely into view; also, the indistinct or unnaturally enlarged appearance of anything, as land, seen at a distance or through a fog. See looming.

n. The track of a fish.

n. A loon. See loon.

n. A guillemot.

To put into or adjust in a loom.

v. come into view indistinctly, often threateningly

v. weave on a loom

v. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing

n. a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile

v. appear very large or occupy a commanding position

"With the Court on the sidelines, the powers of the president of the Senate will once again loom large."

loomed    looming    looms   

look    appear    seem    weave    tissue    rise    rear    lift   

power-loom    cross-border jacquard loom    double-piled-fabric loom    to loom the warp    circular loom    jacquard loom    positive-motion loom    metallic-tissue loom    high-warp loom    electric loom   

loon   

impend   

Bloom    Blum    Blume    Doom    Hume    Khartoum    abloom    assume    bloom    boom   

weaver    anvil