Definitions for adumbrates

adumbrates ad·um·brate

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

Adumbrates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 902 anagrams from letters in adumbrates (aabdemrstu).

Definitions for adumbrates

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.
  4. to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
  5. to foreshadow; prefigure.
  6. to darken or conceal partially; overshadow.

Origin of adumbrates

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

Examples for adumbrates

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.

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

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.

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

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

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