Adumbrate

//ˈædʌmˌbɹeɪt//

Synonyms for "adumbrate" (92 found)

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Related word relations

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More general

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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derived

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derived from

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related to

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Translations

29 translations across 10 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • скицирам verb (To give a vague outline.)

Czech

1 entries
  • nastínit verb (To give a vague outline.)

Dutch

2 entries
  • de contouren vluchtig schetsen verb (To give a vague outline.)
  • overschaduwen verb (To obscure or overshadow.)

French

2 entries
  • pressentir verb (To foreshadow vaguely.)
  • supputer verb (To foreshadow vaguely.)

German

1 entries
  • umreißen verb (To give a vague outline.)

Japanese

4 entries
  • ぼんやりと暗示する verb (To foreshadow vaguely.)
  • 予示する verb (To foreshadow vaguely.)
  • 暗くする verb (To obscure or overshadow.)
  • 概説する verb (To give a vague outline.)

Malay

4 entries
  • membayangkan verb (To give a vague outline.)
  • mengalamatkan verb (To foreshadow vaguely.)
  • ممبايڠکن verb (To give a vague outline.)
  • مڠعلامتکن verb (To foreshadow vaguely.)

Polish

4 entries
  • naszkicować verb (To give a vague outline.)
  • przesłaniać verb (To obscure or overshadow.)
  • przesłonić verb (To obscure or overshadow.)
  • szkicować verb (To give a vague outline.)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • adumbrar verb (To give a vague outline.)

Russian

1 entries
  • наброса́ть verb (To give a vague outline.)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My girlfriend's terse responses began to adumbrate her desire to leave me and move back to Odessa.

Source: tatoeba (10890862)

From track level, its operating floor looks particularly capacious, but there is a vacant space at one end which was designed to accommodate the control panel for the Perth-Inverness C.T.C. scheme; this was adumbrated as long ago as the 1955 Modernisation Plan, but now seems to be regarded as an unjustifiable luxury.

Source: wiktionary

This piece will perform a micro-excavation of these toplayers of the literary soil to suggest anxiogenic literature has the potential not only to adumbrate the post-apocalypse, a common theme in contemporary literature, but also to anticipate the post-Anthropocene.

Source: wiktionary

Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.

Source: wiktionary

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