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adumbers

adumbers is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 adumbers

What is adumbers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Adumbers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of adumber.

Words near adumbers in the dictionary

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

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