verb · transitive

obumbrate

obumbrate · obumbrates · obumbrated · obumbrating

To shade; to darken; to cloudTo shade; to darken; to cloud.

UK/ɒˈbʌmbreɪt/US/ɑˈbəmˌbreɪt/

Meaning

2 senses

(rare)To shade; to darken; to cloud.
(obsolete, transitive)To foreshadow, prefigure.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin obumbrātus, perfect passive participle of obumbrō (“to overshadow, clo

Borrowed from Latin obumbrātus, perfect passive participle of obumbrō (“to overshadow, cloud”), from ob + to shade; see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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Forms

obumbrates, obumbrating, obumbrated, obumbrated

Base form	obumbrate · to obumbrate
3rd person singular	obumbrates
Present participle	obumbrating
Past simple	obumbrated
Past participle	obumbrated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	obumbrate
he, she, it	obumbrates

Past simpleLesson

all persons

obumbrated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have obumbrated
he, she, it	has obumbrated

Future simple (will)Lesson