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Adumbrate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ADUM'BRATE, v.t. [L. adumbro, to shade, from umbra, a shade.]
To give a faint shadow, or slight likeness; to exhibit a faint resemblance, like a shadow.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas" [syn: sketch, outline, adumbrate]
2: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" [syn: intimate, adumbrate, insinuate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-brated; -brating) Etymology: Latin adumbratus, past participle of adumbrare, from ad- + umbra shadow — more at umbrage Date: 1581 1. to foreshadow vaguely ; intimate 2. to suggest, disclose, or outline partially <adumbrate a plan> 3. overshadow, obscure • adumbration noun • adumbrative adjective • adumbratively adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 indicate faintly. 2 represent in outline. 3 foreshadow, typify. 4 overshadow. Derivatives: adumbration n. adumbrative adj. Etymology: L adumbrare (as AD-, umbrare f. umbra shade)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Adumbrate Ad*um"brate, v. t. [L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.] 1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. --L. Taylor. 2. To overshadow; to shade.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Shadow, foreshadow, shadow out, shadow forth, dimly outline, indicate, hint at, approximate, represent approximately, suggest, trace vaguely, faintly delineate. 2. Typify, represent, symbolize, show, denote, stand for, image, figure, prefigure, allegorize, image forth, be a parable of. 3. Darken, bedarken, dim, bedim, obscure, hide, conceal, overcast, overshadow, enshade, enshadow, disillumine, obumbrate, becloud, send into partial eclipse, send into a penumbral light.

Moby Thesaurus

allude to, argue, augur, auspicate, becloud, bedim, bespeak, betoken, block out, bode, body forth, call, chalk out, characterize, cloud, darken, demonstrate, denote, dim, draft, drop a hint, embody, exemplify, figure, fog, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, give a hint, give the cue, glance at, gloom, have a hunch, have an intimation, hint, hint at, illustrate, image, impersonate, imply, incarnate, indicate, insinuate, intimate, lower, mean, menace, mirror, mist, murk, obfuscate, omen, outline, overcast, personate, personify, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, pretypify, prognosticate, project, prompt, prophesy, realize, reflect, rough out, shadow, shadow forth, signify, skeleton, suggest, symbolize, threaten, typify, vaticinate