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adumbrate vt. 画轮廓,预示 画轮廓,预示 adumbrate v 1: describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; " sketch the outline of the book"; " outline his ideas" [ synonym: { sketch}, { outline}, { adumbrate}] 2: give to understand; " I insinuated that I did not like his wife" [ synonym: { intimate}, { adumbrate}, { insinuate}] Adumbrate \ Ad* um" brate\, v. t. [ L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. [ 1913 Webster] Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. -- L. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To overshadow; to shade. [ 1913 Webster] 79 Moby Thesaurus words for " adumbrate": allude to, argue, augur, auspicate, becloud, bedim, bespeak, betoken, block out, bode, body forth, call, chalk out, characterize, cloud, darken, demonstrate, denote, dim, draft, drop a hint, embody, exemplify, figure, fog, forebode, forecast, foreshadow, foreshow, foretell, give a hint, give the cue, glance at, gloom, have a hunch, have an intimation, hint, hint at, illustrate, image, impersonate, imply, incarnate, indicate, insinuate, intimate, lower, mean, menace, mirror, mist, murk, obfuscate, omen, outline, overcast, personate, personify, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, pretypify, prognosticate, project, prompt, prophesy, realize, reflect, rough out, shadow, shadow forth, signify, skeleton, suggest, symbolize, threaten, typify, vaticinate
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