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adumbrate
Overview of verb adumbrate
The verb adumbrate has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. sketch, outline, adumbrate -- (describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas")
2. intimate, adumbrate, insinuate -- (give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife")
Antonyms of verb adumbrate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adumbrate
2 senses of adumbrate
Sense 1
sketch, outline, adumbrate
=> describe, depict, draw
=> set forth, expound, exposit
=> elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
=> clarify, clear up, elucidate
=> explain, explicate
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 2
intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
=> hint, suggest
=> convey, impart
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb adumbrate
1 of 2 senses of adumbrate
Sense 1
sketch, outline, adumbrate
=> block out
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adumbrate
2 senses of adumbrate
Sense 1
sketch, outline, adumbrate
=> describe, depict, draw
Sense 2
intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
=> hint, suggest
'Cause To' of verb adumbrate
Derived Forms of verb adumbrate
Domain of verb adumbrate
Domain Terms of verb adumbrate
Familiarity of verb adumbrate
adumbrate used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb adumbrate
2 senses of adumbrate
Sense 1
sketch, outline, adumbrate
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb adumbrate
2 senses of adumbrate
Sense 1
sketch, outline, adumbrate
> describe, depict, draw
=> represent
=> delineate
=> sketch, outline, adumbrate
Sense 2
intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
> hint, suggest
=> intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
=> clue in
=> allude, touch, advert
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb adumbrate
Sense 1
sketch, outline, adumbrate
=> describe, depict, draw
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Sense 2
intimate, adumbrate, insinuate
=> hint, suggest
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Grep of verb adumbrate
adumbrate
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