Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of obumbrate
adjectiveobumbrated (comparative more obumbrated, superlative most obumbrated)
comparative more obumbrated · superlative most obumbrated
- obsoleterareOvershadowed.First known use 16th–19th c.
This retort […] lighted up the countenances of the aggressor's friends, which had begun to be a little obumbrated […].
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
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