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obumbrated

obumbrated is the simple past and past participle of obumbrate.

Meaning of obumbrate

Verb

obumbrate (third-person singular simple present obumbrates, present participle obumbrating, simple past and past participle obumbrated)

  1. (rare) To shade; to darken; to cloud.
    • those clouds, which did hang over and thus obumbrate him1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To foreshadow, prefigure.

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Adjective

obumbrated (comparative more obumbrated, superlative most obumbrated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Overshadowed.
    • This retort […] lighted up the countenances of the aggressor's friends, which had begun to be a little obumbrated […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Forms of obumbrated

comparativemore obumbrated
superlativemost obumbrated

Questions about obumbrated

What does obumbrated mean?
Obumbrated means overshadowed.
What is obumbrated the simple past and past participle of?
Obumbrated is the simple past and past participle of obumbrate.
What part of speech is obumbrated?
Obumbrated is an adjective.

Words near obumbrated in the dictionary

  1. obumbered
  2. obumbering
  3. obumbers
  4. obumbrant
  5. obumbrate
  6. obumbrated
  7. obumbrates
  8. obumbrating
  9. obumbration
  10. obumbrations
  11. Obummer

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