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SHADE OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shade off mean? 

SHADE OFF (verb)
  The verb SHADE OFF has 1 sense:

1. cast a shadow overplay

  Familiarity information: SHADE OFF used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHADE OFF (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cast a shadow over

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

shade; shade off; shadow

Hypernyms (to "shade off" is one way to...):

darken (make dark or darker)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something


 Context examples 


The head was finished already: there was but the background to tint and the drapery to shade off; a touch of carmine, too, to add to the ripe lips—a soft curl here and there to the tresses—a deeper tinge to the shadow of the lash under the azured eyelid.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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