adumbrate

His photographs have used a variety of techniques to adumbrate this world.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian But as soon as you adumbrate thus, you are beset with misgivings.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2016

Together with the bare facts of the retreat at Walden, those lines have become the ones by which we adumbrate Thoreau, so that our image of the man has also become simplified and inspirational.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

The choice of adverb is peculiarly pregnant, contriving as it does simultaneously to affirm faith and to adumbrate doubt.

From Time Magazine Archive

V. represent, delineate; depict, depicture†; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness &c. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

But they furnish such extensive extracts from diaries and letters, as well as such detailed ''work histories'' of the compositions, that their valuable book adumbrates the shape of many biographies and studies to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

But now, while we are shown that the moral sense doctrine in its original form is not true, we are also shown that it adumbrates a truth, and a much higher truth.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

Of the six "Idyls," three—"In the Woods," "Siesta," and "To the Moonlight"—are memorable, though uneven; and of these the third, after Goethe's "An den Mond," adumbrates faintly MacDowell's riper manner.

From Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman

The figure of the villain, too, adumbrates, though faintly, the type which engaged Hawthorne's mind in later years.

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry

Within its sprawl, each adumbrated alley and plate-glass storefront could hold an entire world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Passages of the original work underlined and adumbrated with exclamation marks and double or even treble question marks; phrases scored out and notes running down the margin at right angles to the printed text.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020

But while lauding the rights and privileges of the Americans he observed, Tocqueville also adumbrated the responsibilities that came with being an American citizen.

From Time ● Nov. 2, 2016

And thus the fragility of this vast ecosystem is adumbrated by the suggestion of decay on the newly restored walls of the gallery.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2015

I muttered that in fragments, but the lines only adumbrated the longing without revealing its hidden fount.

From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

The filmmakers build to this moment as if it were D-Day or the Rumble in the Jungle, excavating a biographical Before and adumbrating a news media After.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2015

In Wisconsin last week, Nixon gave a paid, 20-minute nationwide radio speech adumbrating a broad and basically moderate approach to the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

This one’s descent was mincing, hesitant, adumbrating dread of disclosures—these expectedly ample, columnar, massive.

From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor

There only, they implied, could something adumbrating a sacred ritual and a spiritual consolation be preserved.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

Adum′brant, Adum′brative, adumbrating or giving a faint shadow.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various