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inumbrate

inumbrate verb: to put in shadow; to darken.

Verb

inumbrate (third-person singular simple present inumbrates, present participle inumbrating, simple past and past participle inumbrated)

  1. (obsolete) To put in shadow; to darken.
    • An eclipse had suddenly inumbrated the moon, and as the black shadow was perceived stealing rapidly onwards, and casting a mysterious gloom over the face of nature[…]1844, Sir William Cornwallis Harris, The Highlands of Æthiopia

inumbrate meaning in Urdu

inumbrate in Urdu

پرچھاؤں ڈالنا, سایہ ڈالنا

Forms of inumbrate

third-person singular presentinumbrates
present participleinumbrating
past participleinumbrated
pastinumbrated

Origin of inumbrate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin inumbrātus, perfect passive participle of inumbrō (“to shade”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about inumbrate

What does inumbrate mean?
Inumbrate means to put in shadow; to darken.
What is inumbrate in Urdu?
Inumbrate in Urdu is پرچھاؤں ڈالنا, سایہ ڈالنا. See Inumbrate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is inumbrate?
Inumbrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of inumbrate?
The past tense of inumbrate is inumbrated.

Words near inumbrate in the dictionary

  1. inuloid
  2. inulol
  3. inulosucrase
  4. inulosucrases
  5. Inuman
  6. inumbrate
  7. inumbrated
  8. inumbrates
  9. inumbrating
  10. inumimi
  11. inunct

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inumbrate (page history and authors); inumbrate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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