adumbrate
verb (used with object)
to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
adumbrating
-
present participleof adumbrate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The filmmakers build to this moment as if it were D-Day or the Rumble in the Jungle, excavating a biographical Before and adumbrating a news media After.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2015
In Wisconsin last week, Nixon gave a paid, 20-minute nationwide radio speech adumbrating a broad and basically moderate approach to the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a blind primeval ferocity to be engendered by adumbrating, even for a few moments, their non-existence.
From Command by William McFee
This one’s descent was mincing, hesitant, adumbrating dread of disclosures—these expectedly ample, columnar, massive.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
Adum′brant, Adum′brative, adumbrating or giving a faint shadow.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
