shadowed

[shad-ohd]

adjective

Printing.

1. noting or pertaining to an ornamented type in which the embellishment is outside the character, especially one in which a black line at one side and at the top or bottom gives the effect of a cast shadow.

Other Word Forms

• self-shadowed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of shadowed¹

1350–1400 in general sense; Middle English; shadow, -ed ²

Example Sentences

Along with team member Laura Clifton Byrne, an undergraduate at San Francisco State University, he also shadowed foraging chimpanzees, retrieving freshly dislodged fruits from beneath the canopy and measuring their alcohol content.

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The gaps in implementation became glaring as the BBC shadowed Bihar officials in a misty October morning raid on bootleggers.

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The capital greets us not with wild crowds, but with shadowed buildings and the whir of taxis along San Jerónimo Street.

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This week Elon Musk suggested on X that quantum computing would run best on the "permanently shadowed craters of the moon".

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A federal judge has officially shut down Justin Baldoni’s $400-million countersuit against Blake Lively — the latest development in a long and bitter legal feud that has shadowed their movie “It Ends With Us.”

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