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How to pronounce adumbrate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms outline, sketch
Type of depict, describe, draw
Has types block out
Type Words
Synonyms insinuate, intimate
Type of hint, suggest

Examples of adumbrate

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The present scene of low price-earnings ratios does adumbrate below trend growth ahead.
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Our slow growth setting, and now the election's results, adumbrate some major policy changes.
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Intel and Microsoft adumbrate shareholder conscious boards, too, but no earnings story attached.
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The bare bones numbers adumbrate deflation and tensions.
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Historically, they adumbrate a business consolidation phase coming as well as a stall in stock market momentum.
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Some apocalyptic passages scattered throughout seem to adumbrate themes of John's Book of Revelation and other Apocalyptic literature.
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The art museum palazzos along the Grand Canal adumbrate hubris, a dangerous trait for anyone who collects art and operates in financial markets.
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If my charts are anywhere near the truth, they adumbrate either lackluster demand or much new supply either from oil or alternative energy.
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You can trial for an Aluminum Shell position adumbrate doeskin strap, if you are peerless of those who would like to swing their iPhone around while giving it great shock absorbance.
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  • Sketch: describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"
  • Intimate: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife"
  • (adumbration) prefiguration: the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
  • (adumbration) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation
  • (Adumbration) Foreshadowing is a literary technique used by many different authors to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later on in the story. It is a literary device in which an author drops hints about the plot and what may come in the near future. ...
  • To foreshadow vaguely; To give a vague outline; To obscure or overshadow
  • (adumbrated) Obscured; Foreshadowed; Depicted on a shield as an outline instead of as a solid figure
  • (adumbrated) a partial disclosure, a sketchy outline, to provide only the main facts and not the details about something, particularly something that will happen in the future
  • (Adumbration) (Ad-um-bra'-tion) A figure on a coat of arms traced in outline only, or painted in a darker shade of the same color as the field on which it is represented. ...