adumbrate
verb (used with object)
to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
have adumbrated
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present perfectof adumbrate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The World State in this ideal presents itself as the sole landowner of the earth, with the great local governments I have adumbrated, the local municipalities, holding, as it were, feudally under it as landlords.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
If a phonograph were kept in the house, you would learn from it that the average sentence of the average speaker is an even more grotesque abortion than I have adumbrated.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
As I have adumbrated to you more than once, I am not so sure of all this.
From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee
