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adumbering

adumbering is the present participle and gerund 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 adumbering

What is adumbering the present participle and gerund of?
Adumbering is the present participle and gerund of adumber.

Words near adumbering in the dictionary

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

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