Adumbrate

[Ad*umĀ·brate]

To adumbrate something is to outline it. In an English essay, you could adumbrate the themes in a novel; or, in a letter to Santa, you could adumbrate all the ways you have been behaving.

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

Verb
give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife"

Verb
describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"


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

v. t.
To overshadow; to shade.


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.
2. To overshadow; to shade.

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

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