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.
I cannot understand how, if the amendment had been successfully carried yesterday, that would have been consistent with the granting of a constituency vote, which he is now apparently adumbrating.
Is he adumbrating that this afternoon?
I cannot help wondering whether, with his great fairness, he might have reached a different conclusion from the one which he seemed to be adumbrating, had he read the report.
Is there any evidence of the sort of shortages that he has been adumbrating flowing from the continuance of price control?
One could perhaps say that that is not so dissimilar from the circumstances that he is adumbrating.
He stressed the limited scope of the scheme which he was adumbrating.
I am not putting forward or adumbrating any particular doctrine.
This document is, obviously, adumbrating the idea of the reduction of benefits.
