To bring information in fewer words; to describe roughly or briefly.
1 Towering skyscrapers adumbrate the skyline as inequality undergirds society.
2 Suppress your gag reflex while we adumbrate the plot.
3 Her suit lights refracted off the gritty ice with its dark adumbrate core of sorrow and suffering.
4 To adumbrate the claims of the arts is not, of course, to deny those of schools, hospitals, police services.
5 There had, in truth, scarcely yet been time enough to adumbrate the possibilities opened up by this gentleman's return.
6 And during it all an eternal song, of which it catches now and then a few words which adumbrate still higher wonders.
7 In doing so he may, adventitiously, throw light on something more interesting than the past; he may adumbrate the outline of the coming movement.
8 He adumbrated a vision of a purified Church peopled by unsullied innocents.
9 It's hard to know where to begin when adumbrating the ludicrousness of this phenomenon.
10 The women of his own race and place had never adumbrated such a possibility.
11 Dear old thing: of course they had and a great deal more than adumbrated .
12 So we have great verities of the most spiritual religion adumbrated in this external rite.
13 The bitter placidity of Winterborne's look adumbrated the misgivings he did not care to express.
14 Of a surety it would bless me with a bedful of churches and crucifixions, duly adumbrated .
15 The conception, even thus dimly and confusedly adumbrated , brought a new sense of life-terrificand eternal.
16 Yet already there were voices, especially in Virginia, which adumbrated the incomparable phrases of the greatest of Virginians.
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