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Definition of "adumbrating" []

  • Present participle of adumbrate. (verb)

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Use "adumbrating" in a sentence
  • "Let me close, then, by adumbrating one particularly forceful instance of anti-Liberal and anti-progressive thinking, namely,"
  • "(The incomparable Jenny Diski wondered: "He may have been adumbrating not advocating, but is there another way to describe patronising and smug?")"
  • "Few can equal him in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and insignificant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal in connection with regions or buildings."
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