释义 |
adumbratead‧um‧brate /ˈædʌmbreɪt/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEadumbrate |
Present | I, you, we, they | adumbrate | | he, she, it | adumbrates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | adumbrated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have adumbrated | | he, she, it | has adumbrated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had adumbrated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will adumbrate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have adumbrated |
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Present | I | am adumbrating | | he, she, it | is adumbrating | | you, we, they | are adumbrating | Past | I, he, she, it | was adumbrating | | you, we, they | were adumbrating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been adumbrating | | he, she, it | has been adumbrating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been adumbrating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be adumbrating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been adumbrating |
- De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used.
- He told me that his civil servants had said that this was impossible, and adumbrated the problem to me.
- In this chapter, however, we want to adumbrate the principal features of the continuum view of non-linear viscoelasticity.
- The essentials of this form of government may be adumbrated as follows.
- The incident adumbrates an attitude of mind which is mirrored in the linguistic techniques exploited later in the novel.
- These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.
formal to suggest or describe something in an incomplete way |