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SHADOWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shadowed mean? 

SHADOWED (adjective)
  The adjective SHADOWED has 1 sense:

1. filled with shadeplay

  Familiarity information: SHADOWED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHADOWED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with shade

Synonyms:

shadowed; shadowy; shady; umbrageous

Context example:

cool umbrageous woodlands

Similar:

shaded (protected from heat and light with shade or shadow)


 Context examples 


Tangey, the commissionnaire, has been shadowed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Why don't you write? That always used to make you happy," said her mother once, when the desponding fit over-shadowed Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sir Nigel blinked at them in amazement, and a look of the deepest sorrow shadowed his face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Inside the polar vortex over the increasingly shadowed south pole, there has been a rapid build-up of trace gases that accumulate in the absence of ultraviolet sunlight.

(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)

One key science finding in 2012 provided compelling support for the hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant frozen water and other volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters.

(NASA Spacecraft Achieves Unprecedented Success Studying Mercury, NASA)

Taken together, Ceres' permanently shadowed regions occupy about 695 square miles (1,800 square kilometers).

(Dawn Maps Ceres Craters Where Ice Can Accumulate, NASA)

As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The curved and shadowed drive led us to a low, dark house, pitch-black against a slate-coloured sky.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For decades it has been postulated these so-called permanently shadowed regions are so cold that any ice trapped within them can potentially survive for billions of years.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)

All of these bodies have small tilts with respect to their axes of rotation, so their poles are extremely cold and peppered with persistently shadowed craters.

(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)



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