Preposition: of

• winter: After all the doom and gloom of the winter, once more my thoughts are turning to spring.

• night: In the gloom of night, our minds lose all restraint.

Converse of object

• pierce: Scimitar sharp they pierce the gloom, shadowy long fingers of doom.

• lighten: To lighten this gloom, two bright new stars appeared on the horizon.

• dispel: We were probably all going to die anyway but Diana could dispel the gloom with just a smile, couldn't she?

• encircle: Is the bar a place of conviviality or does it merely heighten, rather than lighten, the encircling gloom of the street outside?

• deepen: OUT of the deepening gloom, a dazzling light appeared.

• lift: Anyway, Together is back to lift the sporting gloom here in London town.

Adjective modifier

• Stygian: Despite an early optimistic weather forecast from Brian Partridge, the steady drizzle added to the Stygian gloom.

• murky: Six months of murky muddy gloom every winter is a bit hard to deal with.

• deep: By Saturday Kate was plunged into a deep gloom.

• gray: From this gray gloom there must be a beacon to follow.

• economic: Despite the general economic gloom there are still sectors which are desperate for UK services.

• dark: Quite hard to find, especially in the dark misty gloom of a Winter's evening.

Modifies a noun

• merchant: More recently, gloom merchants have pointed to the introduction of the euro.

• scenario: Anxious people tend to misuse their imagination to conjure up all sorts of doom and gloom scenarios.

Noun used with modifier

• gathering: Now the trees stand forlorn in the gathering gloom.

• winter: The team will be on hand to provide some pre summer fun and help customers to escape the winter gloom.

• evening: By loose feeding with maggots Josh caught several more roach before the light faded and the float vanished into the evening gloom.

• morning: Up Back Street, anyway, and the morning gloom closing in again as he left the artificial lights.