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adumbrate

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Definition

describe or reveal incompletely — as when outlining major points, or when sharing information guardedly

Less commonly, adumbrate can mean to foreshadow, or obscure (make harder to see or understand).

She expounded on the view previously adumbrated.

She adumbrated the idea only in a single footnote.
Leon Guggenhammer was young and fat. Not a day more than thirty, his face, save for the adumbrated puff sacks under the eyes, was as smooth and lineless as a boy's.
Jack London -- Burning Daylight
The system of relations established in the Middle Ages between philosophy and theology was adumbrated in the early Middle Ages and completed in the thirteenth century.
The system of relations established in the Middle Ages between philosophy and theology was adumbrated in the early Middle Ages and completed in the thirteenth century.

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