adumbrate

• Verbe utilisé pour désigner l'action d'esquisser, de tracer ou de donner une représentation vague ou partielle de quelque chose ; également, annoncer ou présager quelque chose.

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.

   Résumer ou esquisser

   • 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.

   Synonymesblock outdelineateindicateoutlinerough outsketch

   Antonymesamplifydetailelaborateexpandspecify

2. Foreshadow or hintC2formal

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

   Préfigurer ou laisser entrevoir

   • 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.

   Synonymesaugurforeshadowhintindicateintimateportendprefiguresignalsuggest