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1. Shade within clear boundaries
    
2. An unilluminated area
   "he moved off into the shadow";
   - darkness, dark
    
3. Something existing in perception only
   "a ghostly shadow at midnight";
   - apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm
    
4. A premonition of something adverse
   "a shadow over his happiness"
    
5. An indication that something has been present
   "there wasn't a shadow of evidence for the claim";
   - trace, vestige, tincture
    
6. Refuge from danger or observation
   "he felt secure in his father's shadow"
    
7. A dominating and pervasive presence
   "he received little recognition working in the shadow of his father"
    
8. A spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
   - tail, shadower
    
9. An inseparable companion
   "the poor child was his mother's shadow"

1. Follow, usually without the person's knowledge
   "The police are shadowing her"
    
2. Cast a shadow over
   - shade, shade off
    
3. Make appear small by comparison
   "This year's debt shadows that of last year";
   - overshadow, dwarf

Derived forms: shadows, shadowed, shadowing

Type of: boding, command, darken, dominate, follow, follower, foreboding, illusion, indicant, indication, overlook, overtop, premonition, presence, presentiment, recourse, refuge, resort, scene, semblance, shade, shadiness, shadowiness, spy

Encyclopedia: Shadow, Virginia