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Adumbrate

verb
1.
Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of.  Synonyms: outline, sketch.  "Outline his ideas"
2.
Give to understand.  Synonyms: insinuate, intimate.





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"Adumbrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... seems absolutely demanded to interpret and complete the plangent rhythm of his dulcet numbers. Emotion so far predominates over intelligence, so yearns to exhale itself in sound and shun the laws of language, that we find already in Rinaldo Tasso's familiar Non so che continually used to adumbrate sentiments for which plain words are ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds


Words linked to "Adumbrate" :   block out, hint, sketch, suggest, depict, intimate, describe, draw, insinuate


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