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adumber en · VERB
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(archaic, rare, 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
1596, Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune, page 9:Do the lights and the shade that illume and adumber / Each beautiful page in the Nation’s First Number.
1844, The Spirit of the Nation, 2nd edition, page 23:Serene thy Woe-adumbred Front, sweet Saint; / Let Ioy transluce thy Beauties blandishment
1609, John Davies, The Holy Roode, Or Christs Crosse: Containing Christ Crucified, described in Speaking-picture:
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