Adumber
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Adumber is a verb meaning (rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure.
Meaning
(rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure.
Example Sentences
Serene thy Woe-adumbred Front, sweet Saint; / Let Ioy transluce thy Beauties blandishment
Do the lights and the shade that illume and adumber / Each beautiful page in the Nation’s First Number.
Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile
Word Forms
- adumbers
- adumbering
- adumbered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adumbrate, accumber, obfuscate, overshadow, obumbrate, darken.
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