adumbrate

Borrowed from Latin adumbrātus (“represented in outline”), from adumbrāre (“cast a shadow on”), from umbra (“shadow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈædʌmˌbɹeɪt/

adumbrate (third-person singular simple present adumbrates, present participle adumbrating, simple past and past participle adumbrated)

1. To foreshadow vaguely.
2. To give a vague outline.
   • 1996, John M. Cooper, "Introduction" in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, p. xxii:

     Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.

3. To obscure or overshadow.

• adumbrant
• adumbration
• adumbrative

• See umbra#Derived_terms

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.dumˈbraː.te/, [a.dʊmˈbraː.tɛ]

adumbrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of adumbrō