"adumber" meaning in All languages combined

See adumber on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: adumbers [present, singular, third-person], adumbering [participle, present], adumbered [participle, past], adumbered [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} adumber (third-person singular simple present adumbers, present participle adumbering, simple past and past participle adumbered)
  1. (rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure. Tags: archaic, rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-adumber-en-verb-0k63jlCN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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