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SHADOWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shadowing mean? 

SHADOWING (noun)
  The noun SHADOWING has 1 sense:

1. the act of following someone secretlyplay

  Familiarity information: SHADOWING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHADOWING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of following someone secretly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shadowing; tailing

Hypernyms ("shadowing" is a kind of...):

chase; following; pursual; pursuit (the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture)

Derivation:

shadow (follow, usually without the person's knowledge)


 Context examples 


It is characterized by bilateral perihilar pulmonary shadowing.

(Bat Wing Pulmonary Opacities, NCI Thesaurus)

I had thought, much and often, of my Dora's shadowing out to me what might have happened, in those years that were destined not to try us; I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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