obumbrate

[ob-uhm-breyt]

verb (used with object)

obumbrated, obumbrating 

1. to darken, overshadow, or cloud.

adjective

1. Obsolete.,  overshadowed, darkened.

Other Word Forms

• obumbration noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of obumbrate¹

First recorded in 1505–15; from Latin obumbrātus, past participle of obumbrāre; obumbrant, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Obumbrate, ob-um′brāt, v.t. to overshadow, to darken.—adj. lying under some projecting part, as the abdomen of certain spiders.—adj.

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His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.

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V. be dark &c. adj.. darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate†; obumbrate†, adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim†, bedarken†; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom. extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt. turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights.

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