"live in the shadow of" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lives in the shadow of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "living in the shadow of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived in the shadow of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived in the shadow of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "live<> in the shadow of"
      },
      "expansion": "live in the shadow of (third-person singular simple present lives in the shadow of, present participle living in the shadow of, simple past and past participle lived in the shadow of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "live"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To live in the shadow cast by a structure."
      ],
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      "qualifier": "literal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literal) To live in the shadow cast by a structure."
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Robert Smith, In the Shadow of C. L. Franklin:",
          "text": "Many historical personalities have lived in the shadow of great men; Harry Truman in the shadow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Lowery in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hank Aaron in the shadow of Babe Ruth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Christie Jo Bott, The Bully in the Book and in the Classroom, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 162:",
          "text": "Paul Fisher lives in the shadow of his older brother, Erik. Legally blind, Paul still manages to play soccer while Erik steals the family's attention as a star football kicker. Slowly the truth about Paul's blindness comes out in[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be overshadowed one's entire life, especially by a relative or predecessor."
      ],
      "id": "en-live_in_the_shadow_of-en-verb-SgIjJAd0",
      "links": [
        [
          "overshadowed",
          "overshadow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be overshadowed one's entire life, especially by a relative or predecessor."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lɪv ɪn ðə ˈʃædoʊ ʌv/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌv"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live in the shadow of"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lives in the shadow of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "living in the shadow of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived in the shadow of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lived in the shadow of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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        "1": "live<> in the shadow of"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "live"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To live in the shadow cast by a structure."
      ],
      "qualifier": "literal",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literal) To live in the shadow cast by a structure."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Robert Smith, In the Shadow of C. L. Franklin:",
          "text": "Many historical personalities have lived in the shadow of great men; Harry Truman in the shadow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Lowery in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hank Aaron in the shadow of Babe Ruth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Christie Jo Bott, The Bully in the Book and in the Classroom, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 162:",
          "text": "Paul Fisher lives in the shadow of his older brother, Erik. Legally blind, Paul still manages to play soccer while Erik steals the family's attention as a star football kicker. Slowly the truth about Paul's blindness comes out in[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be overshadowed one's entire life, especially by a relative or predecessor."
      ],
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        [
          "overshadowed",
          "overshadow"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To be overshadowed one's entire life, especially by a relative or predecessor."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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    }
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌv"
    }
  ],
  "word": "live in the shadow of"
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