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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



... majesty of the 'Ghost of Hamlet's Father' contrasted with the expressive energy of his son, and the sublimity brought about by the light, shadow, and general tone, strike the mind with awe. In the picture of 'Lear' is admirably portrayed the stubborn rashness of the father, the filial piety of the discarded daughter, and the wicked determination of Regan and Goneril. The fairy scenes in Midsummer ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... trailed from the more distant trees. In the slaty twilight the garden's verdure was lustreless, the grass and foliage were uniformly sombre save where dewdrops showed like beryls. Nowhere in the orchard was there absolute shadow, nowhere a vista unblurred; in the east, half-way between horizon and zenith, two belts of coppery light flared against the gray sky like embers swaddled by ashes. The birds were waking; there were occasional scurryings in tree-tops and outbursts ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... look at the corner of the interior where were the cow stalls. There was no light there save the appearance of peculiar gray haze which marked the track of the dimming rays of the lantern. All else was sombre shadow. At last she saw something move there. It might have been as small as a rat, or it might have been a part of something as large as a man. At any rate, it proclaimed that something in that spot was alive. At one time she saw it plainly ...
— The Little Regiment - And Other Episodes of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane
... of Florence Nightingale. In one of my books at home, a Chatterbox, I think, there is a picture of her going through a hospital ward. Mothah told me how good she was to the soldiahs, and how they loved her. They even kissed her shadow on the wall as she ...
— The Story of the Red Cross as told to The Little Colonel • Annie Fellows-Johnston
... a little joyous now and then, it is quite without a shadow of bitterness or envy that I write all this. I have lived for fifty years under the charm of that genial, unconscious, irresistible tyranny; and, unlike my dear parents, I have lived to read and know Barty Josselin, nor merely to see and ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier


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