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Adjective shadowing has 1 sense
- shadowing, tailing - following surreptitiously; keeping under surveillance; "always on guard against shadowing submarines"
Antonym: leading (indirect, via following)
Noun shadowing has 1 sense
- shadowing, tailing - the act of following someone secretly
--1 is a kind of pursuit, chase, following
Verb shadow has 3 senses
- shadow - follow, usually without the person's knowledge; "The police are shadowing her"
--1 is one way to follow
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot shadow Sue
- shadow, shade, shade off - cast a shadow over
--2 is one way to obscure, bedim, overcloud
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- shadow, overshadow, dwarf - make appear small by comparison; "This year's debt dwarves that of last year"
--3 is one way to dominate, command, overlook, overtop
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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