adumbrate
verb (used with object)
to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
had adumbrated
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past perfectof adumbrate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Les Misérables is the consummation of the romantic conception of fiction which Rousseau had adumbrated half a century before.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Giles Lytton Strachey
The opening event had been thus different from her expectation, and she had adumbrated no act to meet it.
From Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
I had adumbrated a scheme to arouse interest in his case among certain scholars and men of influence with whom I was slightly acquainted.
From The Wonder by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford
The opening event had been thus different from her expectation, and she had adumbrated no act to meet it.
From A Changed Man; and other tales by Thomas Hardy
