adumbrate
verb (used with object)
to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
adumbrated
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past participleof adumbrate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof adumbrate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
adumbrateverb (used with object)to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
Example Sentences
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Within its sprawl, each adumbrated alley and plate-glass storefront could hold an entire world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Passages of the original work underlined and adumbrated with exclamation marks and double or even treble question marks; phrases scored out and notes running down the margin at right angles to the printed text.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2019
His work on neuroscience and his initial support of McCulloch and Pitts adumbrated the startlingly effective deep-learning methods of the present day.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019
The following statistics will enable the reader to realise how closely the sonnetteering movement in France adumbrated that p. 444in England.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
