What does adumber mean?
Adumber means (rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure..
Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile
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.
Use adumber when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Adumber means (rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile
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