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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

... Africa is shadowed by unsolved racial conflicts. Our policy will continue to reflect our basic commitments as a people to support those who are prepared to work towards cooperation and harmony between races, and to help those who demand change but reject ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... their fittest ornament. There is something strangely original and attractive in the grotesque hideousness of these heads, agonised with pain, scowling in anger, or frightful with their upturned eyes in the rigidity of death, all bleached and shadowed as they are by the ...

— A Tramp's Wallet - stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France • William Duthie

... shore Is shadowed with rocks, and cypresses Cleave with their dark green cones the silent skies, And with their shadows the clear ...

— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner

... by means of which, during the march of many years, the soul could be purified, and rise toward the ethereal regions; that ascent being more or less tedious and laborious, according as each soul was more or less clogged by the gross impediments of its sins and vices. Herein was shadowed forth, (how distinctly taught the Initiates we know not), the doctrine that pain and sorrow, misfortune and remorse, are the inevitable consequences that flow from sin and vice, as effect flows ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... along, putting his feet into my prints. Let him come through a long Nazareth life of common toil in home and shop, then along the crowded path of glad service for others, responding to every call of need. Let him come down into the shadowed olive-grove beyond Kidron's waters, up the bit of a hill outside a city wall, and deep down into the ...

— Quiet Talks with World Winners • S. D. Gordon

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