adumber

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verb

To overshadow or to obscure.

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Meanings

verbadumber (third-person singular simple present adumbers, present participle adumbering, simple past and past participle adumbered)

present singular third person adumbers · participle present adumbering · participle past adumbered · past adumbered

  1. archaicraretransitiveTo overshadow or to obscure.

    Serene thy Woe-adumbred Front, sweet Saint; / Let Ioy transluce thy Beauties blandishment

    1609, John Davies, The Holy Roode, Or Christs Crosse: Containing Christ Crucified, described in Speaking-picture
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    Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile

    1596, Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune, page 9

    Do the lights and the shade that illume and adumber / Each beautiful page in the Nation’s First Number.

    1844, The Spirit of the Nation, 2nd edition, page 23

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Bermuda
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APA

adumber. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumber

MLA

“adumber.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumber. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adumber,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adumber.

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