Shaden

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become shaded or shady. ambitransitive

    "But I'd obviously put the plant in the wrong place. It shadened and dampened some delicate things in the scree; of total losses, it accounted for a just-established plant of the large-flowered Dianthus alpinus and one Erinus."

Example

More examples

"But I'd obviously put the plant in the wrong place. It shadened and dampened some delicate things in the scree; of total losses, it accounted for a just-established plant of the large-flowered Dianthus alpinus and one Erinus."

Etymology

From shade + -en.

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