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Adumbrated Synonyms

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To make dark or darker
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shadowed
  2. shaded
  3. darkened
Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sketched
  2. outlined
  3. augured
  4. suggested
  5. portended
  6. obscured
  7. obfuscated
  8. misted
  9. intimated
  10. indicated
  11. foretold
  12. foreshadowed
  13. darkened
  14. clouded
  15. drafted
  16. boded
Give to understand
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. insinuated
  2. prognosticated
  3. presaged
  4. prefigured
  5. portended
  6. foretokened
  7. foretold
  8. foreshadowed
  9. forecasted
  10. boded
  11. augured
  12. intimated

Adumbrated Sentence Examples

  • Von Hartmann thus combines "pantheism" with "panlogism" in a manner adumbrated by Schelling in his "positive philosophy."

  • As early as 1804, Humboldt expressed the opinion that petroleum was produced by distillation from deep-seated strata, and Karl Reichenbach in 1834, suggested that it was derived from the action of heat on the turpentine of pine-trees, whilst Brunet, in 1838, adumbrated a similar theory of origin on the ground of certain laboratory experiments.

  • The policy here adumbrated was (at least partly) carried into effect by parliament in the Indian Councils Act 1909, which reconstituted all the legislative councils by the addition of members directly elected, and conferred upon these councils wider powers of discussion.

  • Well, it was Aristotle who first adumbrated the principle that that which no one owns, no one will care for.

  • The accurate investigation of the lowest forms of animal life, commenced by Leeuwenhoek and Swammerdam, and continued by the remarkable labours of Reaumur, Abraham Trembley, Bonnet, and a host of other observers in the latter part of the 17th and the first half of the 18th centuries, drew the attention of biologists to the gradation in the complexity of organization which is presented by living beings, and culminated in the doctrine of the echelle des titres, so powerfully and clearly stated by Bonnet, and, before him, adumbrated by Locke and by Leibnitz.

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