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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
shadowed
    adj 1: filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the
           surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on
           rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"
           [syn: shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shadow \Shad"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shadowed; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Shadowing.] [OE. shadowen, AS. sceadwian. See adow,
   n.]
   1. To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw
      a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
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            The warlike elf much wondered at this tree,
            So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.]
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            Let every soldier hew him down a bough.
            And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow
            The numbers of our host.              --Shak.
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   3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
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            Shadowing their right under your wings of war.
                                                  --Shak.
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   4. To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
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   5. To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence,
      to represent typically.
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            Augustus is shadowed in the person of [AE]neas.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
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            The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. --Shak.
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            Why sad?
            I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.
                                                  --Beau. & Fl.
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   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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