adumbrate

Verb

  1. describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; “sketch the outline of the book”; “outline his ideas”
  2. give to understand; “I insinuated that I did not like his wife”
  1. Formal report or represent in outline they have adumbrated the importance of education as a means of social transformation

indicate faintly the walls were not more than adumbrated by the meager light

foreshadow or symbolize what qualities in Christ are adumbrated by the vine?

overshadow her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else

Origin

late 16th century: from Latin adumbrat- ‘shaded’, from the verb adumbrare, from ad- ‘to’ (as an intensifier) + umbrare ‘cast a shadow’ (from umbra ‘shade’)