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adumbrate
[ ad-uhm-breyt, a-duhm-breyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
- to foreshadow; prefigure.
- to darken or conceal partially; overshadow.
adumbrate
/ ædˈʌmbrətɪv; ˈædʌmˌbreɪt /
verb
- to outline; give a faint indication of
- to foreshadow
- to overshadow; obscure
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Derived Forms
- adˈumbratively, adverb
- adumbrative, adjective
- ˌadumˈbration, noun
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Other Words From
- ad·um·bra·tion [ad-, uh, m-, brey, -sh, uh, n], noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adumbrate1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adumbrate1
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Example Sentences
There had, in truth, scarcely yet been time enough to adumbrate the possibilities opened up by this gentleman's return.
Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths.
From now onwards the speeches of Brutus strangely adumbrate those of Hamlet.
Two short passages adumbrate the coming Tennyson, the rest is mystic nonsense.
A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
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