OBUMBRATE

  

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OBUMBRATE

Definition: OBUMBRATE

OBUMBRATE

Transitive verb

1. To shade; to darken; to cloud.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Obumbrate \Ob*um"brate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression obumbratus, past participle of obumbrare to overshadow, cloud; ob umbrare to shade.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translations: OBUMBRATE

Language Translations for "OBUMBRATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukranian 

  

затіняти (obtenebrate, overshadow, shade, shadow), затемнювати (adumbrate, bedarken, bedim, blind, darken, deface, dim out, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow), приховувати (becloud, blind, cache, cloak, conceal, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, palliate, put by, salt away, stash away, subduct, veil, vizor, wry), прихований (arcane, blind, bosomed, close, closet, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, furtive, glossy, hideaway, latent, obscure, occulted, privy, secret, stealthy, ulterior, underneath, veiled), прикритий (covered, shaded). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "OBUMBRATE"

Words rhyming with "OBUMBRATE" (pronounced 'Ob*um"brate'): Adumbrate, Glabrate, Revibrate, Umbrate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OBUMBRATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-m-o-r-t-u"

-2 letters: bromate, bumboat, outbeam, tambour.

-3 letters: arbute, barbet, barbut, boater, bomber, borate, burbot, mature, mobber, rabbet, rebato, rubato, tabour, tambur, tubber, umbrae.

-4 letters: abbot, abort, about, amber, amort, amour, armet, barbe, beaut, boart, bombe, bream, brome, brume, brute, buret, buteo, embar, mater, metro, morae, muter, oater, omber, ombre, orate, outer, outre, ramet, rebut, route.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-m-o-r-t-u"
 

+3 letters: blabbermouth.

 

+4 letters: blabbermouths.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OBUMBRATE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 42 55 4D 42 52 41 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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