adumbrate
verb (used with object)
to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
adumbrates
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present tense formof adumbrate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
The figure of the villain, too, adumbrates, though faintly, the type which engaged Hawthorne's mind in later years.
From Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry
But now, while we are shown that the moral sense doctrine in its original form is not true, we are also shown that it adumbrates a truth, and a much higher truth.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
The eyes of education are fixed always upon the future, and philosophy of whatever kind, directly adumbrates a Utopia, thinks on educational lines.
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
