transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃædoʊ ]
( shadows, shadowing, shadowed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A shadow is a dark shape on a surface that is made when something stands between a light and the surface.
An oak tree cast its shadow over a tiny round pool...
Nothing would grow in the shadow of the grey wall...
All he could see was his shadow.
N-COUNT
2.
Shadow is darkness in a place caused by something preventing light from reaching it.
Most of the lake was in shadow.
= shade
N-UNCOUNT : oft in N
3.
If something shadows a thing or place, it covers it with a shadow.
The hood shadowed her face.
VERB : V n
4.
If someone shadows you, they follow you very closely wherever you go.
The supporters are being shadowed by a large and highly visible body of police.
= follow
VERB : V n
5.
A British Member of Parliament who is a member of the shadow cabinet or who is a shadow cabinet minister belongs to the main opposition party and takes a special interest in matters which are the responsibility of a particular government minister.
...the shadow chancellor.
ADJ : ADJ n
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Shadow is also a noun.
Clarke swung at his shadow the accusation that he was ‘a tabloid politician’.
N-COUNT : poss N
6.
If you say that something is true without a shadow of a doubt or without a shadow of doubt , you are emphasizing that there is no doubt at all that it is true.
It was without a shadow of a doubt the best we’ve played.
PHRASE : usu with brd-neg [ emphasis ]
7.
If you live in the shadow of someone or in their shadow , their achievements and abilities are so great that you are not noticed or valued.
He has always lived in the shadow of his brother.
PHRASE : N inflects
8.
If you say that someone is a shadow of their former self , you mean that they are much less strong or capable than they used to be.
Johnson returned to the track after his ban but was a shadow of his former self.
PHRASE : Ns inflect