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Meaning of adumber | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To overshadow or to obscure.

archaic, rare, transitive

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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