adumbrate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
    sketch; outline.
    • sketch the outline of the book
    • outline his ideas
  2. verb give to understand
    insinuate; intimate.
    • I insinuated that I did not like his wife

WordNet

Ad*um"brate transitive verb
Etymology
L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.
Definitions
  1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
    Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.
  2. To overshadow; to shade.

Webster 1913