Adumbrated

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of adumbrate form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Obscured. comparable

    "We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings."

  2. 2
    Foreshadowed. comparable
  3. 3
    Depicted on a shield as an outline (having the same colour(s) as the field, but often darker) instead of a solid figure. (See "further reading" below.)

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"To be honest, my duties here are very ill defined, or rather not defined at all, but only adumbrated."

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