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"
- synonyms: shade
- Vary slightly.
- usage: "shade the meaning"
- synonyms: shade
- Pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree.
- usage: "the butterfly wings shade to yellow"
- synonyms: shade
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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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