loom

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

loom [loom looms loomed looming] verb, noun BrE [luːm] NAmE [luːm]
verb
1. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) to appear as a large shape that is not clear, especially in a frightening or threatening way
•A dark shape loomed up ahead of us.
2. intransitive to appear important or threatening and likely to happen soon
•There was a crisis looming.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
n. Old English gelōma ‘tool’ lome Middle English v. mid 16th cent. Low German Dutch lōmen ‘move slowly’ Middle High German lüemen ‘be weary’

Example Bank:
•A large door loomed before us.
•A new threat is now looming on the horizon.
•Further problems loomed ahead of us.
•Ghostly shapes loomed out of the fog in front of him.
•He loomed above her.
•The day of the election loomed ever closer.
•The tower loomed over the city.
•A boat loomed into view out of the misty night.
•A dark shape loomed in the distance.
•A figure loomed in the doorway.
•Dizzying walls of rock loomed on either side of them.
•Something huge and black loomed out of the mist.
•The city walls loomed up ahead of them.
Idiom: ↑loom large
 
noun
a machine for making cloth by twisting threads between other threads which go in a different direction

Word Origin:
n. Old English gelōma ‘tool’ lome Middle English v. mid 16th cent. Low German Dutch lōmen ‘move slowly’ Middle High German lüemen ‘be weary’
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  brood, hover, bulk large, tower, predominate, hulk