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obumbrating

obumbrating is the present participle and gerund 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 obumbrating

What is obumbrating the present participle and gerund of?
Obumbrating is the present participle and gerund of obumbrate.

Words near obumbrating in the dictionary

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

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