obumbrate UK /ɒˈbʌmbreɪt/US /ɑˈbəmˌbreɪt/adjective 2verb 2forms 3 adjective2 •(rare) Lying under some projecting part, like the abdomen of certain spiders. •(Scotland, no longer used) Overshadowed, darkened. verb2 •(rare) To shade; to darken; to cloud.those clouds, which did hang over and thus obumbrate him — 1640 •(no longer used) To foreshadow, prefigure. formsobumbrated · obumbrating · obumbrates
