Definitions for adumbrate

adumbrate ad·um·brate

Spelling: [a-duhm-breyt, ad-uh m-breyt]
IPA: /æˈdʌm breɪt, ˈæd əmˌbreɪt/

Adumbrate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 436 anagrams from letters in adumbrate (aabdemrtu).

Definitions for adumbrate

verb (used with object)

  1. to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
  2. to foreshadow; prefigure.
  3. to darken or conceal partially; overshadow.

Origin of adumbrate

1575-85; Latin adumbrātus shaded (past participle of adumbrāre), equivalent to ad- ad- + umbr(a) shade, shadow + -ātus -

Examples for adumbrate

But it is now time to state, or rather faintly to adumbrate, the grand assumption of this singular work.

There had, in truth, scarcely yet been time enough to adumbrate the possibilities opened up by this gentleman's return.

One could adumbrate triumph or disaster by the effort, sustained or otherwise, made by them.

A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.

Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths.

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