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shaded > define

verb

  • Cast a shadow over.
  • Represent the effect of shade or shadow on.
  • Protect from light, heat, or view.
    • usage: "Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight"
  • Vary slightly.
    • usage: "shade the meaning"
  • Pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree.
    • usage: "the butterfly wings shade to yellow"

adjective

  • Protected from heat and light with shade or shadow. "shaded avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night- Alexander Pope
  • Of pictures or drawings. ( drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow)
    • usage: "the shaded areas of the face seemed to recede"
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(imp.&p.p.) of Shade.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary