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   adumbrate

   /ˈadʌmbreɪt/

   verb

   • 1. represent in outline: "Hobhouse had already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state"
   • ▪ indicate faintly: "the walls were only adumbrated by the meagre light"
   • 2. foreshadow (a future event): "tenors solemnly adumbrate the fate of the convicted sinner"
   • 3. overshadow: "her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- ‘shaded’, from the verb adumbrare, from ad- ‘to’ (as an intensifier) + umbrare ‘cast a shadow’ (from umbra ‘shade’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. adumbration noun
   • 2. adumbrative adjective

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • A

     1

   • D

     2

   • U

     1

   • M

     3

   • B

     3

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

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