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Definition of Adumbrate

1. Verb. Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of. "Outline his ideas"

2. Verb. Give to understand. "They adumbrate that there was a traffic accident "; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife"

Definition of Adumbrate

1. v. t. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.

Definition of Adumbrate

1. Verb. To foreshadow vaguely. ¹

2. Verb. To give a vague outline. ¹

3. Verb. To obscure or overshadow. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adumbrate

1. [v -BRATED, -BRATING, -BRATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adumbrate

adultization adultize adultized adultizes adultizing adultlike adultly adultness adultnesses adultomorphism

adultress adultresses adultry adults adumbral adumbrate (current term) adumbrated adumbrates adumbrating adumbration

adumbrations adumbrative adumbratively adunation adunations adunc aduncate aduncity aduncous adunque

Literary usage of Adumbrate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"The admission of elements from a Heathen origin seems to adumbrate, in the creations of an art still in its infancy, the spirit which continued, ..."

2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The sense has been recognized in dictionaries. adumbrate adumbrate is a hard word, a learned word, frequently found in works of literary and art criticism. ..."

3. Old Testament Prophecy by Andrew Bruce Davidson, James Alexander Paterson (1904)
"Both the truths and the transactions are future; and to adumbrate and foreshadow them is the one purpose of the institution,-—and that it does adumbrate ..."

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