adumbrate
/ˈædəmˌbreɪt/
verb
- To give a rough or general outline of something; to describe or suggest something in a vague way.
- The speaker adumbrated the main points of his theory without going into detail.
- The report adumbrates the challenges the company will face next year.
- Early sketches adumbrate the final design of the building.
- To foreshadow or be a sign of something that will happen in the future.
- The dark clouds adumbrate an approaching storm.
- His early success adumbrated a brilliant career.
- The economic downturn adumbrated the crisis that followed.
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