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obumbrates

obumbrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about obumbrates

What is obumbrates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Obumbrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of obumbrate.

Words near obumbrates in the dictionary

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

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