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adumbered

adumbered is the simple past and past participle of adumber.

Meaning of adumber

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

Questions about adumbered

What is adumbered the simple past and past participle of?
Adumbered is the simple past and past participle of adumber.

Words near adumbered in the dictionary

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

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