Adumbrate
Adumbrate verb - To give a slight indication of beforehand.
Usage example: the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow
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Synonyms for Adumbrate
Harbinger and adumbrate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Harbinger" instead a verb "Adumbrate".
Nearby Words: adumbration, adumbrative, adumbrating
Harbinger
Harbinger verb - To give a slight indication of beforehand.
Usage example: the hope that the housing slump does not harbinger a general economic recession
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Synonyms for Harbinger
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Related pairs
- promise and adumbrate
- promise and harbinger
- forecast and adumbrate
- forecast and harbinger
- prophesy and adumbrate
- prophesy and harbinger
- signal and adumbrate
- signal and harbinger
- predict and adumbrate
- predict and harbinger
- omen and adumbrate
- omen and harbinger
- presage and adumbrate
- presage and harbinger
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