adumbrate

• Verbo que significa esbozar o delinear algo de forma vaga o parcial, o presagiar o anunciar algo que ha de venir.

A verb used to indicate the act of outlining, sketching, or giving a faint or partial representation of something; to foreshadow or prefigure.

1. Outline or summarizeC2formal

   To describe or outline something in a brief or general way, giving the main points.

   Resumir o esbozar

   • The professor adumbrated the key concepts of the theory in the first lecture.
   • In his opening remarks, he adumbrated the plan for the upcoming year.
   • She adumbrated the plot of the novel without revealing the ending.

   Sinónimosblock outdelineateindicateoutlinerough outsketch

   Antónimosamplifydetailelaborateexpandspecify

2. Foreshadow or hintC2formal

   To suggest or indicate something indirectly; to give a hint or forewarning.

   Presagiar o insinuar

   • The early chapters adumbrate the conflict that will arise later.
   • His nervous behavior adumbrated the bad news he was about to deliver.
   • The dark clouds adumbrated the coming storm.

   Sinónimosaugurforeshadowhintindicateintimateportendprefiguresignalsuggest