adumbrate

/ˈadəmbɹˌeɪt/

/ˈædəmbɹˌeɪt/

[verb]

to adumbrate

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of

synonyms : outline

sketch

give to understand

synonyms : insinuate

intimate

Examples

1. I think what you've seen today is the court adumbrate, delineate the limits of power for the executive and the role of democracy, of Parliament in our democracy.

2. And so this phantom refrain, calling to be left in peace and allowed to die, is also adumbrating, with the utmost metaphysical delicacy, the fact that Tom has once more become a figure for potential: awaiting a new host, condemned to the life sentence�or perhaps better, the lifeline.

3. We can also, I suggest, discern something about the subconscious workings of Shakespeare’s mind in images not directly demanded by the narrative, in a manner that was adumbrated by Caroline Spurgeon in her book Shakespeare’s Imagination and What it Tells Us and, more subtly, by Edward Armstrong in his Shakespeare's Imagination: A Study of the Psychology of Association and Inspiration of 1943, where he discerns recurrent image-clusters that help to track the working of Shakespeare’s subconscious mind.