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n. A screening against light or heat.

n. The lines or other marks used to fill in outlines of a sketch, engraving, or painting to represent gradations of color or darkness.

n. A small variation, gradation, or difference.

v. Present participle of shade.

n. Act or process of making a shade.

n. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.

n. The act or process of making a shade; interception of light; obscuration.

n. That which represents the effect of light and shade in a drawing; the filling up of an outline.

n. graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting

n. a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

"I say, and Brianna stills, the sneer on her face slipping, her expression shading into something different, something fearful and lost."

gradation    graduation   

sardine    shadingyu   

shade   

aiding    blading    blockading    braiding    cascading    crusading    degrading    downgrading    evading    fading   

nuance    widen    gradation    subsidence    cilia    scatterer    palm-lined    gamboge    minutiae    soften