adumbrate

adumbrate

verb

Definition of ADUMBRATE

to give a slight indication of beforehand <the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow>

Synonyms adumbrate, forerun, harbinger, herald, prefigure

Related Words anticipate, foreknow, foresee; forecast, foretell, predict, prognosticate, prophesy; forewarn; augur, bode, forebode (also forbode), portend, presage, promise; allude, connote, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, suggest