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Shadow   /ʃˈædˌoʊ/   Listen
Shadow

noun
1.
Shade within clear boundaries.
2.
An unilluminated area.  Synonyms: dark, darkness.
3.
Something existing in perception only.  Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom.
4.
A premonition of something adverse.
5.
An indication that something has been present.  Synonyms: tincture, trace, vestige.  "A tincture of condescension"
6.
Refuge from danger or observation.
7.
A dominating and pervasive presence.
8.
A spy employed to follow someone and report their movements.  Synonyms: shadower, tail.
9.
An inseparable companion.
verb
(past & past part. shadowed; pres. part. shadowing)
1.
Follow, usually without the person's knowledge.
2.
Cast a shadow over.  Synonyms: shade, shade off.
3.
Make appear small by comparison.  Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow.



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"Shadow" Quotes from Famous Books



... the enthusiasm of a traveller if he came upon it in some distant city of the East, though the difference of language and costume is all there is between the two. But when it is empty, with its bare walls and bare floor and high dark roof, sun and shadow make from it a beauty which it is worth a moment's pause and ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... of Flanders, Douay, and Tournay, the most populous portions of the Netherlands, he proceeded at a rapid pace, spreading dismay far and wide, dragging suspected persons from their firesides or beds, and thrusting them into dismal dungeons: arresting, torturing, strangling, burning, with hardly the shadow ...
— The Golden Grasshopper - A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham • W.H.G. Kingston
... swept the heavens inquiringly. A speck in the blue, far away in the realms of atmospheric infinity, kept growing in size until it took the form of the wings with which man flies. The plane volplaned down with steady swiftness, till its racing shadow lay large over the landscape for a few seconds before it rose again with ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... steadiness about it that calmed the nerves, strengthened self-reliance, and inspired confidence. It was a bold challenge for the confederates to come out and fight a duel to the finish. That they would be compelled to take up the gage thus thrown down there was no shadow ...
— Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman - With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War • J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
... keep her tavern clean is writ in the books of the provost of Paris town,' the Widow Annot answered, and the shadow of her great white hood, which she wore in the older English fashion, danced over the brown wooden beams ...
— Privy Seal - His Last Venture • Ford Madox Ford


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