SHADOW


Meaning of SHADOW in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ dark , deep , dense , strong

The house lay in dark ~.

▪ black

▪ faint , pale ( figurative )

The industry is a pale ~ of its former self.

▪ giant , long

▪ eerie , sinister , strange , terrible

▪ dancing , flickering

the flickering ~s of the flames

VERB + SHADOW

▪ cast , create , make , produce , throw

The boat's sail cast a ~ on the water.

Use a desk light to produce a strong ~.

The candles on the table threw huge flickering ~s against the wall.

▪ fill sth with ~s

The streets were now filled with terrible ~s.

▪ emerge from , move out of , step out from , step out of

Suddenly a large figure emerged from the ~s.

▪ move into , shrink into , slip into

She shrank back into the ~s as the footsteps approached.

▪ lurk in , wait in , watch from

criminals lurking in the ~s

SHADOW + VERB

▪ fall , lie

The evening ~s were beginning to fall.

Deep ~s lay across the small clearing where they sat.

▪ get longer , grow longer , lengthen

As the ~s lengthened, the men drifted home.

▪ creep , move , pass

The ~s of the clouds passed over us.

▪ loom

A dark ~ loomed over her.

▪ dance , flicker , leap

A dark ~ leaped out of nowhere.

PREPOSITION

▪ among the ~s

an odd shape among the ~s

▪ in the ~s

I could just make out a figure in the ~s.

▪ into the ~s

I backed into the ~s until the car had passed.

▪ in ~

His face was in ~.

▪ into ~

The storm clouds threw the mountains into deep ~.

▪ from the ~s , out of the ~s

A huge figure stepped out of the ~s.

▪ through the ~s

the fears that kept crowding in on her as she hurried through the ~s

PHRASES

▪ live in the ~ of sb/sth ( figurative )

She had always lived in the ~ of her older sister.

II.

adj.

Shadow is used with these nouns: ↑ cabinet , ↑ secretary

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .