232. Adumbrate - Formal Vocabulary - Adumbrate / Adumbration

Adumbrate : 개략적으로 알려주다, 희미하게 보이다, 전조가되다, 조짐을 보이다, 그늘을 드리우다

Adumbration : 표상, 예시, 희미한 윤곽, 희미한 묘사, 전조, 그늘, 그늘지게함, 약화

 

1)

To give a rought outline of something

To explan but only main fact, not the details

She adumbrate the objectives but not in great detail 

To adumbrate an idea and a concept

a shadowy outline , a fait outline 

 

2)

You can see a rather shadowy outline of it

His face was adumbrated by the candle that was burning in the center of the room

 

3)

To foreshadow 

It is something that indicates something is going to happen in the future

A lot of social unrest that adumbrate the onset of of a revolution

It is a clue or indicator, but not clear indicator

 

4)

To overshadow, to obscure

His glorious win in the competition was adumbrated by bad news from home 

To reduce, to make less intense it

To take away from it 

To illuminate or show but very sllighty

 

 

Formality : 7.5

 

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