shadowed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of shadow.

   The reporter shadowed the campaign for months before writing her story.

   Tall buildings shadowed the narrow street below all afternoon.

   Note

   A regular verb, so one form covers both the past tense and the participle: she shadowed him, he was being shadowed. The passive suits the surveillance meaning, where the person followed is the focus. In the workplace meaning, following a professional through the day to learn the job, it can also stand without an object: the students shadowed at the clinic for a week.

2. 2
   adjective

   Shown with shading added, as though parts of the figure were lying in shadow.

   The illustrator preferred a shadowed style, giving each figure real depth on the page.

   On the old engraving, a shadowed lion appeared to stand out from the flat shield.

   Similarshaded

   Note

   In blazon the word follows a charge or tincture and then names the color of the shading. The color can follow directly, as in a man's heart proper shadowed or, or come after with, as in or shadowed with gules. Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry (1722) and Arthur Charles Fox-Davies's Armorial Families (1910) both use the first pattern. The word does not take degrees: a charge is shadowed or it is not.

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