0 present participle of adumbrate
1 to give only the main facts and not the details about something, especially something that will happen in the future:
The project's objectives were adumbrated in the report.
The two spatial reorganizations exemplified two major state-led projects of modernity adumbrating a specific course of the national development of the time.
It seems to me he is adumbrating a very dangerous doctrine.
A disposal that appeared to conflict with the broad principle that he is adumbrating could not be challenged in the courts.
He has accused some of my noble fiends of adumbrating an outdated strategic doctrine.
This document is, obviously, adumbrating the idea of the reduction of benefits.
I am not putting forward or adumbrating any particular doctrine.
He stressed the limited scope of the scheme which he was adumbrating.
One could perhaps say that that is not so dissimilar from the circumstances that he is adumbrating.
