Adumbrate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adumbrate \Ad*um"brate\, v. t. [L. adumbratus, p. p. of
     adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.]
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     1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to
        outline; to shadow forth.
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              Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible
              universe the invisible God is adumbrated. --L.
                                                    Taylor.
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     2. To overshadow; to shade.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adumbrate
       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}]
       2: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his
          wife" [syn: {intimate}, {insinuate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "adumbrate":
     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