Adumber

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To overshadow or to obscure. archaic, rare, transitive

    "Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile"

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"Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile"

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