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SHADOWED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Filled with shade
Example:
cool umbrageous woodlands
Synonyms:
shadowed; shadowy; shady; umbrageous
Classified under:
Similar:
shaded (protected from heat and light with shade or shadow)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb shadow
Context examples:
It was quite dark when I at last turned back to our stricken camp, and my last vision as I went was the red gleam of Zambo's fire, the one point of light in the wide world below, as was his faithful presence in my own shadowed soul.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here Holmes turned suddenly to the right and we found ourselves in a large, square, empty room, heavily shadowed in the corners, but faintly lit in the centre from the lights of the street beyond.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Permanently shadowed regions do not receive direct sunlight.
(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)
The clerk Gorot has been shadowed all these nine weeks, but without result.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I perceived, for the first time, the dark suspicion that shadowed my life.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As the eyes became more used to the obscurity one learned that there were different degrees of darkness among the trees—that some were dimly visible, while between and among them there were coal-black shadowed patches, like the mouths of caves, from which I shrank in horror as I passed.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was evident that to his intensely aristocratic nature this discussion of his intimate family affairs with a stranger was most abhorrent, and that he feared lest every fresh question would throw a fiercer light into the discreetly shadowed corners of his ducal history.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission have identified permanently shadowed regions on the dwarf planet Ceres.
(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)
Have you shadowed her?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I know what a multitude of things he has shut out for my sake, and how his anxious thoughts of me have shadowed his life, and weakened his strength and energy, by turning them always upon one idea.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
