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adumbrate

verb as in foreshadow

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Example Sentences

There had, in truth, scarcely yet been time enough to adumbrate the possibilities opened up by this gentleman's return.

Feeble is human speech to deal with such high matters, serving, at the best, but dimly to adumbrate ineffable truths.

From now onwards the speeches of Brutus strangely adumbrate those of Hamlet.

Two short passages adumbrate the coming Tennyson, the rest is mystic nonsense.

A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to adumbrate, such as: augur, bode, cloud, darken, foretell, and indicate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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