adumbrate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: adumbrate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for adumbrate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adumbrate v describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas" Synonym(s): sketch, outline, adumbrate give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" Synonym(s): intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adumbrate \Ad*um"brate\, v. t. [L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.] 1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. --L. Taylor. 2. To overshadow; to shade.