adumbrate
verb (used with object)
to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
were adumbrating
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past progressiveof adumbrate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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For now they were all very full of the approaching constitutional crisis, and were adumbrating in respectful, yet slightly menacing terms, what the King himself would do in the matter.
From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Laurence Housman
