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1. Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
   "adumbrate the outline of the book"
   - sketch, outline
    
2. Give to understand
   "I adumbrated that I did not like his wife"
   - intimate, insinuate

Derived forms: adumbrates, adumbrated, adumbrating

Type of: depict, describe, draw, hint, suggest