VERB
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describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
sketch the outline of the book
outline his ideas -
give to understand
I insinuated that I did not like his wife
How To Use adumbrate In A Sentence
- These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.
- Both the existing legislation on racism, and that adumbrated by the prime minister on the ‘preachers of hate’, have an illiberal potential - that is, they do restrict freedom of expression.
- … Every time he closed his eyes, her adumbrated silhouette burnt with inedible precision into his retina, bought back the pain he was trying to run from. Extending Your Vocabulary « Write Anything
- Some of the matters I have already adumbrated seem to me to bear upon that.
- Too, the tone in which the survival and natural selection principles are adumbrated is obviously naturalistic. “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
- This latter course, in fact, is already adumbrated at certain junctures in the Opus Postumum.
- An introduction sketches the book's key terms and thereby adumbrates its themes, especially the principal pair of beauty and the infinite.
- Nelson Hilton and David Erdman's prescient but brief remarks aside, the only contributor to engage reproduction with any intensity was John Grant, who, to his credit, adumbrated something not unlike the William Blake Archive in scale, comprehensiveness, and image-intensiveness. Introduction
- Here then, already adumbrated, is the double emphasis on heaven and home, or on home as heaven.
- Congratulations: This is the first time that I have encountered the word 'adumbrated' in print. Undefined
