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What does adumbrate mean?

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Verb
  1. To foreshadow vaguely.
  2. To give a vague outline.
  3. To obscure or overshadow.
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However, Greenblatt's impressive scholarship and brilliantly captivating instances of literary wit adumbrate his research's possible flaws.
But who tells the epic of the foetus itself, of its life in the womb, which Browne and Coleridge adumbrate?
And Reeve nails the problem with market-led concepts of desert only to adumbrate an alternative that is equally infelicitous.
Like any short introduction, it does not have time to say very much, but what it does say is enough to adumbrate the major ideas to follow.
A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
This is an auteur who works from deep within herself to establish a mood, adumbrate a design, build a tempo, and intimate an idea.

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