Synonyms for shadowing

Grammar : Verb

Spell : shad-oh-ing

Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃæd oʊ ɪŋ

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Définition of shadowing

Origin : Old English sceadwe, sceaduwe "the effect of interception of sunlight, dark image cast by someone or something when interposed between an object and a source of light," oblique cases ("to the," "from the," "of the," "in the") of sceadu (see shade (n.)). Shadow is to shade (n.) as meadow is to mead (n.2). Cf. Old Saxon skado, Middle Dutch schaeduwe, Dutch schaduw, Old High German scato, German schatten, Gothic skadus "shadow, shade."
From mid-13c. as "darkened area created by shadows, shade." From early 13c. in sense "anything unreal;" mid-14c. as "a ghost;" late 14c. as "a foreshadowing, prefiguration." Meaning "imitation, copy" is from 1690s. Sense of "the faintest trace" is from 1580s; that of "a spy who follows" is from 1859.
As a designation of members of an opposition party chosen as counterparts of the government in power, it is recorded from 1906. Shadow of Death (c.1200) translates Vulgate umbra mortis (Ps. xxiii:4, etc.), which itself translates Greek skia thanatou, perhaps a mistranslation of a Hebrew word for "intense darkness." In "Beowulf," Gendel is a sceadugenga, a shadow-goer, and another word for "darkness" is sceaduhelm. To be afraid of one's (own) shadow "be very timorous" is from 1580s.

verb make dark
verb follow secretly

Example sentences :

He sends Charles to detective offices with advices for the shadowing of these runaways.
Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee

At the second corner he halted, for again he could see the men he was shadowing.
Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Cruise » by Burt L. Standish

Then his story of the shadowing of Leborge was not at all in character.
Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

I fixed up with him to wait for the man who was shadowing me, and I led him down to Whitechapel.
Extract from : « The Grell Mystery » by Frank Froest

If it's the right Hagan, Merry may find some one else by shadowing him.
Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Pursuit » by Burt L. Standish

I'd like to see you shadowing some foxy second-story worker!
Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.

You mean, and you may as well own up to it at once, that you were shadowing me.
Extract from : « Fantmas » by Pierre Souvestre

"The smell of this tree's detestable," he said, glancing at the shadowing hawthorn.
Extract from : « Sandra Belloni, Complete » by George Meredith

The little network was taking all the strain out of shadowing.
Extract from : « The Electronic Mind Reader » by John Blaine

The dial on the front of the old house was just shadowing four o'clock.
Extract from : « The Whirlpool » by George Gissing

Antonyms for shadowing

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