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Past tense of shadow

regular verb

The past tense of shadow is shadowed. The past participle is also shadowed.

Forms of shadow

Base form (V1)shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/
Past tense (V2)shadowed
Past participle (V3)shadowed
Present participleshadowing /ˈʃædəʊɪŋ/
Third person singularshadows /ˈʃædoʊz/

Shadowed in a sentence

  • A dark place, a shadowed place, only a blot against the eternally nightened skies.2014, Harlan Ellison, Paingod. From the entry nighten
  • The brightness from abovedeck made the shadowed interior all the darker.2004, Kurt R. A. Giambastiani, From the Heart of the Storm, page 276. From the entry abovedeck
  • And now not once evoked, lies Effort dead Before the frightings of a shadowed dread?1907, Edwin Exon, Poems, page 51. From the entry frighting
  • Fred's eyes have creases round them and his face looks thinner, shadowed by a chinful of stubble, but he's undeniably good-looking.2013, Emlyn Rees, Josie Lloyd, The Boy Next Door, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry chinful
  • His shadowed eyes prowled the young dancers.2011, Wyatt Underwood, Poems for Harley Riders and Other Transcendentals, page 45. From the entry psht

Meaning of shadow

  1. noun A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
  2. noun Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
  3. noun An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).

Full definition of shadow

Questions about the past tense of shadow

What is the past tense of shadow?
The past tense of shadow is shadowed.
What is the past participle of shadow?
The past participle of shadow is shadowed.
Is shadow a regular or irregular verb?
Shadow is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shadow (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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