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adumbrate
[ ad-uhm-breyt, a-duhm-breyt ]
verb (used with object)
, ad·um·brat·ed, ad·um·brat·ing.
- 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
- ˌadumˈbration, noun
- adˈumbratively, adverb
- adumbrative, adjective
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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
First recorded in 1575–85; from Latin adumbrātus “shaded,” past participle of adumbrāre “to shade,” from ad- ad- + umbr(a) “shade, shadow” + -āre, infinitive verb suffix
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Word History and Origins
Origin of adumbrate1
C16: from Latin adumbrātus represented only in outline, from adumbrāre to cast a shadow on, from umbra shadow
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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.
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Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths.
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From now onwards the speeches of Brutus strangely adumbrate those of Hamlet.
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Two short passages adumbrate the coming Tennyson, the rest is mystic nonsense.
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A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
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