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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -adumbrat-, *adumbrat*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
adumbrate(vt) แรเงา

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
adumbrate(แอดอัม' เบรท) vt. แลเงา, วาดโครงร่าง, วาดย่อ, พรรณาย่อ ๆ , พูดเป็นนัย, ทอดเป็นเงาบัง. -adumbration n., -adumbrative adj. (suggest)

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
adumbrate(vt) ทอดเงา, แลเงา, วาดโครงร่าง

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
adumbrate
adumbrated
adumbrates
adumbrating

WordNet (3.0)
adumbration(n) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation
adumbrative(adj) indistinctly prophetic, Syn. prefigurative, foreshadowing

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Adumbrate

v. t. [ L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To overshadow; to shade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adumbration

n. [ L. adumbratio. ] 1. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) The shadow or outlines of a figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adumbrative

a. Faintly representing; typical. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

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