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obumbrate

[ ob-uhm-breyt ]

verb (used with object)

obumbrated, obumbrating.
  1. to darken, overshadow, or cloud.


adjective

  1. Obsolete. overshadowed, darkened.
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of obumbrate1

First recorded in 1505–15; from Latin ´Ç²ú³Ü³¾²ú°ùÄå³Ù³Ü²õ, past participle of ´Ç²ú³Ü³¾²ú°ùÄå°ù±ð; obumbrant, -ate 1
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Example Sentences

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Obumbrate, ob-um′brÄt, v.t. to overshadow, to darken.—adj. lying under some projecting part, as the abdomen of certain spiders.—adj.

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His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.

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V. be dark &c. adj.. darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate†; obumbrate†, adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim†, bedarken†; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom. extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt. turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights.

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