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    [Verb]  | "ad*um*brate" | \ ˈa-dəm-ˌbrāt \


    1: to foreshadow vaguely : intimate

    2: to suggest, disclose, or outline partially

    3: overshadow, obscure


    Origin: 1537 ;

     Borrowed from Latin adumbrātus, past participle of adumbrāre "to shade, represent by means of light and shade, sketch, outline," from ad- {see: |ad-|ad-} + -umbrāre, verbal derivative of umbra "shadow" {mat|umbrage|};

    [Verb]  | "adumbrate" 


    1: to give a slight indication of beforehand;


      * e.g., " ... the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow "



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     [ "Adumbrable" ]

    1: When two smart people are together and dumb as a couple

      * e.g.,  ... Zeez and Zaaz are not adumbrable 

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