inumbrate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin inumbratus, past participle of inumbrare (to shade).

Verb

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inumbrate (third-person singular simple present inumbrates, present participle inumbrating, simple past and past participle inumbrated)

  1. (obsolete) To put in shadow; to darken.
    • 1844, Sir William Cornwallis Harris, The Highlands of Æthiopia:
      An eclipse had suddenly inumbrated the moon, and as the black shadow was perceived stealing rapidly onwards, and casting a mysterious gloom over the face of nature []

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