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verb

Shadow v. t. (past & past part. shadowed; pres. part. shadowing)

1.

To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. "The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground."

2.

To conceal; to hide; to screen. (R.) "Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host."

3.

To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. "Shadowing their right under your wings of war."

4.

To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

5.

To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. "Augustus is shadowed in the person of AEneas."

6.

To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. "The shadowed livery of the burnished sun." "Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed."

7.

To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.

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Etymology of 'Shadowed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shadowed" Quotes from Famous Books

... round, prominent eyes were shadowed with a great horror and an even greater surprise. He stood staring at the man before him, his hands clasped in a wholly unconscious gesture ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various

... turn the enemy's flank by gaining the heights under which he was defiling. This last corps was placed under the direction of Reduan Benegas, a chief of Christian lineage, according to Bernaldez, and who may perhaps be identified with the Reduan that, in the later Moorish ballads, seems to be shadowed forth as the personification of love and ...

— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott

... lay mirrored the craggy back-stretch of the asteroid, half of it clear-cut and hard in Jupiter's flood of light, the other half lost in the encompassing blackness of space. Over this shadowed portion a faint, unearthly glow clung close, the result of the terrific friction of the ascent. In miniature, in the regular screens, was Satellite III, but a distorted miniature, for its half-face appeared concave in shape, and dusted with the ...

— The Passing of Ku Sui • Anthony Gilmore

... it pass. I want you to make the acquaintance of that loving couple, Mr. and Mrs. Numagawa Jiro. You must disguise yourself. Jiro is to be shadowed constantly. Get any help you require, but do it. Be off, Winter, on the wings of the wind. Fasten on to Jiro. Batten on him. Become his invisible vampire. Above all else, discover his associates. Run now to the bank and cash ...

— The Stowmarket Mystery - Or, A Legacy of Hate • Louis Tracy

... excited by the sound of my name or the sight of my face, it was certainly not a pleasant one. The one look I ventured showed me the pale eyes shadowed by a frown, and the gleam of white teeth as they gnawed the lower lip under the slight dark line of ...

— The House by the Lock • C. N. Williamson

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