Definition of "adumbrate" [ad•um•brate]

To give a sketchy outline of. (verb-transitive)
To prefigure indistinctly; foreshadow. (verb-transitive)
To disclose partially or guardedly. (verb-transitive)
To overshadow; shadow or obscure. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "adumbrate" in a sentence

"Adumbrated – from adumbrate (always used in conjunction with an object)"
"And just as the fish and the reptile glimmeringly adumbrate man, so do these yearnings and desires adumbrate what man in himself calls "love," spelled all out in capitals."
"All that I can think of as a remedy is benign neglect, which is an easier policy to adumbrate than to carry out."

Words like "adumbrate"

adumbrant adumbrated adumbrates

adumbrating adumbration adumbrative

hint outline overshadow

shade suggest