shaded 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of shadednext
as in shady
protected from the sun's rays walking along the park's shaded pathway

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shaded

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verb

past tense of shade
as in protected
to shelter (something) from light and heat the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun

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  1. shady
  2. protected
  3. covered
Adjective
  • Image On a recent muggy Saturday morning, a few dozen people — from restless children and lanky teenagers to men and women in their 50s and 60s — flocked to the shady overpass.
    María Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Then there’s Ferrer’s arm surfacing in the last episode, which has to be going somewhere, and now Deb’s entanglement with a shady new character.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of shady
Verb
  • Just as Warner Bros had given Jane’s true creative freedom, from their recording sessions to making their own videos, American facilitated and protected Deconstruction’s art.
    Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
  • But the ecosystem is far from protected, and there are now more than 750 million devices vulnerable to attack.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of protected
Verb
  • This amount covered his mortgage, funded his retirement account, and left enough to invest in his new eco-friendly startup idea.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Those subsidies became more generous under the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 to ensure more Americans were covered during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of covered
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