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adumber

adumber verb: to overshadow or to obscure.

Verb

adumber (third-person singular simple present adumbers, present participle adumbering, simple past and past participle adumbered)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure.
    • Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile1596, Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune, page 9
    • Serene thy Woe-adumbred Front, sweet Saint; / Let Ioy transluce thy Beauties blandishment1609, John Davies, The Holy Roode, Or Christs Crosse: Containing Christ Crucified, described in Speaking-picture

Forms of adumber

third-person singular presentadumbers
present participleadumbering
past participleadumbered
pastadumbered

Questions about adumber

What does adumber mean?
Adumber means to overshadow or to obscure.
What part of speech is adumber?
Adumber is a verb.
What is the past tense of adumber?
The past tense of adumber is adumbered.

Words near adumber in the dictionary

  1. adultship
  2. adultspeak
  3. adultswear
  4. adultwear
  5. adulty
  6. adumber
  7. adumbered
  8. adumbering
  9. adumbers
  10. adumbral
  11. adumbrant

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