shadowboxed

Verb (1)

shadowbox (third-person singular simple present shadowboxes, present participle shadowboxing, simple past and past participle shadowboxed)

1. To display in a shadowbox.
   • This is also the time to decide which photos will be shadowboxed, which ones will be popped up, and which will lie flat on the paper.2004, Leisure Arts, Inc, Award-Winning Scrapbook Pages, page 42

Verb (2)

shadowbox (third-person singular simple present shadowboxes, present participle shadowboxing, simple past and past participle shadowboxed)

1. To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror.
   • He was shadowboxing to keep fit and practice before the big fight.
2. To engage in evasive maneuvers; to avoid addressing something directly.
   • He wrapped himself forever in the garden of his mind showered with golden cataclysms, sun-explosive and shadowboxed all patentcy of death.1931, Pagany - Volume 2, Issues 1-3, page 34
3. (figuratively) To argue with an imaginary enemy.
   • Without being shadowboxed into psychedelic fears about losing Japan as a trader or as a friend — let us remind our Government today that Japan wants what we have and we want them to get what we have but not at the expense of our economy or at an unfair price.1968, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Retailing, Distribution, and Marketing Practices, Log-exporting Problems, page 583

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