enshadow

present singular third person enshadows · participle present enshadowing · participle past enshadowed · past enshadowed

1. transitiveTo cover with a shadow.

   One of the most pervasive of these images is that of a great enshadowing tree which is personified, a great mother who binds all living things together in the manifold embrace of her leaves and branches.

   2005, Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys, The J. Hillis Miller Reader, page 172

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   Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings […]

   1910, E. M. Forster, Howards End