Usually means: Outline or suggest; foreshadow vaguely.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adumbrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. adumbrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adumbrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adumbrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adumbrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. adumbrate: Wordnik
  7. adumbrate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adumbrate: Wiktionary
  9. adumbrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adumbrate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adumbrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adumbrate, adumbrate: Dictionary.com
  13. Adumbrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. adumbrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. adumbrate: Rhymezone
  16. Adumbrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. adumbrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. adumbrate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. adumbrate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. adumbrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. adumbrate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Adumbrate: World Wide Words
  23. adumbrate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. adumbrate: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adumbrate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adumbrate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adumbrate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adumbrate, adumbrate: A Word A Day

(Note: See adumbrated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To foreshadow vaguely.
verb:  To give a vague outline.
verb:  To obscure or overshadow.

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