adumbrate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ADUM'BRATE, verb transitive [Latin adumbro, to shade, from umbra, a shade.] To give a faint shadow, or slight likeness; to exhibit a faint resemblance, like a shadow.
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