obumbrate

[ ob-uhm-breyt ]

verb (used with object)

, ob·um·brat·ed, ob·um·brat·ing.

1. to darken, overshadow, or cloud.

adjective

1. Obsolete. overshadowed, darkened.

Other Words From

• obum·bration noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of obumbrate¹

First recorded in 1505–15; from Latin obumbrātus, past participle of obumbrāre; obumbrant, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Obumbrate, ob-um′brāt, v.t. to overshadow, to darken.—adj. lying under some projecting part, as the abdomen of certain spiders.—adj.

From Project Gutenberg

His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.

From Project Gutenberg

V. be dark &c. adj.. darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate†; obumbrate†, adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim†, bedarken†; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom. extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt. turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights.

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