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- the valley was in shadow
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- lurking in the shadows
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- blaze,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- day,
- daylight,
- glare,
- glow,
- light,
- lightness
- a run-down mansion that is only a shadow of its former glory
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- not even a shadow of a doubt about the defendant's guilt
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- ace,
- bit,
- crumb,
- dab,
- dram,
- driblet,
- glimmer,
- hint,
- lick,
- little,
- mite,
- nip,
- ounce,
- particle,
- peanuts,
- ray,
- scintilla,
- scruple,
- shade,
- shred,
- skosh,
- smack,
- smell,
- smidgen
- (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge),
- snap,
- soupçon,
- spark,
- spatter,
- speck,
- splash,
- spot,
- sprinkling,
- strain,
- streak,
- suspicion,
- tad,
- touch,
- trace
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- abundance,
- barrel,
- boatload,
- bucket,
- bundle,
- bushel,
- deal,
- fistful,
- gobs,
- heaps,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- loads,
- lot,
- mass,
- mess,
- mountain,
- much,
- oodles,
- passel,
- peck,
- pile,
- plenty,
- potful,
- profusion,
- quantity,
- raft,
- reams,
- scads,
- stack,
- wad,
- wealth
- rumors of a shadow haunting the castle
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- the husband's adulterous affair had cast over their marriage a shadow from which there was no escape
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of shadow (Entry 2 of 2)
- shadowing the suspect to see what he was up to
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- thickening clouds shadowed the countryside
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“Shadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadow. Accessed 3 Jun. 2020.
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The first known use of shadow was before the 12th century
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