Synonyms of adumbrate

adumbrate

verb

as in to anticipate

to give a slight indication of beforehand

the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow

Synonyms & Similar Words

• anticipate
• foreshadow
• predict
• prefigure
• imply
• herald
• foresee
• suggest
• forerun
• harbinger
• prognosticate
• foretell
• forecast
• allude
• presage
• prophesy
• portend
• forewarn
• foreknow
• forebode
• hint
• bode
• connote
• promise
• augur
• intimate
• forbode
• insinuate

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