shadowing Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of following someone secretly
    tailing.
  2. verb follow, usually without the person's knowledge
    shadow.
    • The police are shadowing her
  3. verb cast a shadow over
    shadow; shade off; shade.
  4. verb make appear small by comparison
    shadow; overshadow; dwarf.
    • This year's debt dwarfs that of last year

WordNet


Shad"ow*ing noun
Definitions
  1. Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. Feltham.
  2. A faint representation; an adumbration.
    There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.

Webster 1913