obumbrate

verb /ɒˈbʌmbreɪt/

1. To shade; to darken; to cloud.

   rare

   those clouds, which did hang over and thus obumbrate him

2. To foreshadow, prefigure.

   obsolete, transitive

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin obumbrātus, perfect passive participle of obumbrō (“to overshadow, cloud”), from ob + to shade; see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry obumbrate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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