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silhouetted

verb

past tense of silhouette
as in traced
to draw or make apparent the outline of in the photograph the majestic mountain is strikingly silhouetted against the setting sun

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Recent Examples of silhouetted People are silhouetted against the setting sun in Berlin on June 19, 2026 in Berlin, Germany. — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 30 July 2026 When hunting, the dragonflies approached their prey from below, so prey was often viewed silhouetted against the sky. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 7 July 2026 Look out for delicate, wispy cloud formations that shine silver and blue in the twilight, while other clouds near the horizon appear dark and silhouetted in the evening sky. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 5 June 2026 There was light back there, and then all these trees were silhouetted. — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 May 2026 The original house was set back and silhouetted against the backdrop of trees. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026 The Endless Summer design, featuring a surfer silhouetted against an orange-yellow sunset, is Florida's top-selling specialty plate, with 145,063 registrations. — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026 The astronauts will also look for dust lofted off the moon’s surface and silhouetted against the faint coronal light. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026 Whatever is placed on the paper as it is exposed—a body, a flower—is silhouetted. — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for silhouetted
  1. traced
  2. sketched
  3. outlined
  4. defined
Verb
  • But truthfulness also depends on how information is found, filtered, challenged and traced.
    — Patrick Dajos, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • As is so often the case, these rumors can be traced back to a single press release put out by one of the universities where the work was done.
    — JOHN TIMMER, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of traced
Verb
  • An overflow crowd packed into a South Side union training hall Thursday night and loudly rejected the plan sketched out by Amtrak officials for a massive new maintenance center in their neighborhood.
    — Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Margaret Keane’s big-eyed children gaze unabashedly at a girl sketched by Pablo Picasso, and cartoonist Rose O’Neill rubs elbows with Vincent van Gogh.
    — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of sketched
Verb
  • And then there was the Israeli condition that Hamas disarmament should come first, and then the rest of the promises outlined in the ceasefire could follow.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Amazon said it was not given advanced notice that Muse would access its store and outlined several other concerns.
    — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of outlined
Verb
  • The shade switch signaled that the singer is officially entering a new era, one that’s no longer defined by the fiery red feature or banana coils.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Researchers have defined a new material blueprint for the next-generation microchip encryption.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of defined

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“Silhouetted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silhouetted. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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