Usually means: To obscure, darken, or overshadow.
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  1. obumbrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. obumbrate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. obumbrate: Wordnik
  4. obumbrate: Wiktionary
  5. obumbrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Obumbrate, obumbrate: Dictionary.com
  7. Obumbrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. obumbrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Obumbrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. obumbrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. obumbrate: FreeDictionary.org
  12. obumbrate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. Obumbrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obumbrate: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obumbrate)

▸ verb:  To shade; to darken; to cloud.
▸ adjective:  Lying under some projecting part, like the abdomen of certain spiders.

Similar:
overcast, inumbrate, nubilate, becloud, overcloud, umbeset, adumbrate, cloud, umbecast, enshadow, more...

Opposite:
illuminate, brighten, clarify

Types:
eclipse, occlude, conceal, shroud, mask, cover, hide, more...

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Similar:
overcast, inumbrate, nubilate, becloud, overcloud, umbeset, adumbrate, cloud, umbecast, enshadow, more...

Opposite:
illuminate, brighten, clarify

Types:
eclipse, occlude, conceal, shroud, mask, cover, hide, more...



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