adumbrating
present participle ofadumbrate
| 单词 | adumbrating |
| 释义 | adumbrating present participle ofadumbrate adumbrate verb[T] formaluk/ˈæd.əm.breɪt/us/ˈæd.əm.breɪt/to give only themainfactsand not thedetailsabout something,especiallysomething that willhappenin thefuture: The project'sobjectiveswere adumbrated in thereport. Defining & explaining
Examplesofadumbratingadumbrating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The two spatial reorganizations exemplified two major state-led projects of modernityadumbratinga specific course of the national development of the time. From theCambridge English Corpus It seems to me he isadumbratinga very dangerous doctrine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 A disposal that appeared to conflict with the broad principle that he isadumbratingcould not be challenged in the courts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He has accused some of my noble fiends ofadumbratingan outdated strategic doctrine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This document is, obviously,adumbratingthe idea of the reduction of benefits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not putting forward oradumbratingany particular doctrine. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He stressed the limited scope of the scheme which he wasadumbrating. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 One could perhaps say that that is not so dissimilar from the circumstances that he isadumbrating. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there any evidence of the sort of shortages that he has beenadumbratingflowing from the continuance of price control? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot help wondering whether, with his great fairness, he might have reached a different conclusion from the one which he seemed to beadumbrating, had he read the report. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Is headumbratingthat this afternoon? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot understand how, if the amendment had been successfully carried yesterday, that would have been consistent with the granting of a constituency vote, which he is now apparentlyadumbrating. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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