adumbrate
verb
[ ˈadʌmbreɪt ]
• represent in outline.
• "Hobhouse had already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state"
• foreshadow (a future event).
• "tenors solemnly adumbrate the fate of the convicted sinner"
• overshadow.
• "her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else"
Origin:
late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- ‘shaded’, from the verb adumbrare, from ad- ‘to’ (as an intensifier) + umbrare ‘cast a shadow’ (from umbra ‘shade’).
