adumbrate
pronunciation
How to pronounce adumbrate in British English:
UK [ˈædəmbreɪt]
How to pronounce adumbrate in American English:
US [ˈædəmˌbret, əˈdʌm-]
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- Verb:
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- give to understand
Word Origin
- adumbrate
- adumbrate: see umbrage
- adumbrate (v.)
- "to outline, to sketch," 1580s, from Latin adumbratus "sketched, shadowed in outline," past participle of adumbrare "to represent (a thing) in outline" (see adumbration). Meaning "to overshadow" is 1660s. Related: Adumbrated; adumbrating.
Example
- 1. Would you run and adumbrate ?
- 2. Lung cancer has what symptom have adumbrate ?
- 3. The recent development adumbrate a world - wide revolution in computer technology .
- 4. You will acquisition there 's annihilation there to adumbrate .
- 5. What can there be to adumbrate before occurrence schizophrenia , the depressed disease that how calculates ?