shadow

Pronunciation

• enPR: shăd'ō
• IPA ^(key): /ˈʃædəʊ/

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Noun

Singular shadow

Plural shadows

Shadows

1. (countable) A shadow is the dark area that is made when something blocks light, and that is shaped like the thing blocking the light.

   I saw your shadow against the wall.

   The shadows got long as the sun set.

2. (uncountable) The darkness that is in a shadow.

   The room filled with shadow as the night came.

Verb

Plain form shadow

Third-person singular shadows

Past tense shadowed

Past participle shadowed

Present participle shadowing

1. (transitive) If you shadow someone you follow them closely without their knowing it.
   • Synonym: follow

   The detective shadowed the thief.

2. (transitive & intransitive) If something is being shadowed it is being covered in shadow or made dark.
   • Synonym: shade

   The curtains shadowed the room.