What's the difference between adumbrate and overshadow?

Adumbrate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
  • (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The syndrome he described--a psychosis of early onset with a deteriorating course characterized by a "silly" affect, behavioral peculiarities, and formal thought disorder--not only adumbrated Kraepelin's generic category of dementia praecox but quite specifically defined the later subtype of hebephrenic, or disorganized, schizophrenia as well.
  • (2) The way companies now see themselves largely chimes with the vision adumbrated in 1990 by the management guru, Charles Handy, when he argued that companies were "communities not properties", and that profits were "a necessary but not sufficient condition of success".
  • (3) These conclusions and the rapidity of action of intravenously administered substances necessitated the adumbration of a new electrical hypothesis for the mechanism whereby signals pass from one part of the brain and spinal cord to another.
  • (4) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
  • (5) These data are interpreted as support for the hypothesis (first adumbrated nearly 20 years ago) that HLA antigens index unusual hormone concentrations, which in turn are causally related to the diseases.
  • (6) Just a few paragraphs before, Obama had adumbrated the Muhammad video explanation, saying: "Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths.
  • (7) In particular, private health insurers' potential role in cost control is explored, and some promising insurer strategies are adumbrated.
  • (8) Possibilities to overcome the radiation damage problem are adumbrated.
  • (9) She wrote two books in 1918, Married Love and Wise Parenthood, in which she adumbrated some of her eugenicist views.
  • (10) The purpose of this paper is to describe an aspect of the functioning of a therapeutic community conceptualized in terms of a sociotherapy framework as adumbrated, for example, by Edelson (1970), Rapoport (1960), and White et al.
  • (11) Further genetic advances required for development of recombinant BCG into an effective recombinant vaccine vehicle, including possibilities for oral administration, are adumbrated.
  • (12) The changing form and relations of PPTg and LDT are adumbrated including that of the microcellular nucleus (MI) to the former and of Barrington's detrusor nucleus (B) which is unstained, to the latter.

Overshadow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In terms of net health benefits, the potential reduction in cardiovascular disease would have greatest impact, and would overshadow any small increase in breast cancer risk possibly associated with long-term use.
  • (2) These steps signify a willingness for engagement not seen before, but they have been overshadowed by the "nuclear crisis" triggered in October 2002 when Pyongyang admitted to having the "know-how", but not the technology, for a highly enriched uranium route to nuclear weapons.
  • (3) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
  • (4) Evidently, the powerful adherence-inhibiting and desorptive effects of salivary components overshadowed any promoting effects attributable to glucan synthesis from sucrose.
  • (5) Once an individual's radiologic education has progressed beyond a fundamental level, individual reader characteristics overshadow experience in the accuracy of chest film interpretation.
  • (6) After 3-4 years, the prognostic influence of the AMI seemed to be overshadowed by the age effect.
  • (7) But the humanitarian catastrophes in Syria have been overshadowed by stories about Islamic State .
  • (8) If there’s more encouraging news this week, let’s hope it’s not overshadowed by the Marmite episode.
  • (9) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
  • (10) While the Sala news was significant, it was overshadowed by the implosion of Raggi’s administration, in part because she holds the office with the highest profile in her party.
  • (11) But the talks risk being overshadowed by the looming Greek crisis.
  • (12) Some of these may be sufficiently symptomatic to draw attention to their presence, even, on occasion, overshadowing or preceding gastrointestinal disease symptoms.
  • (13) The legitimate focus on the plight of refugees on Nauru has overshadowed the impact of Australian policies on that island nation, a closely integrated society of just 10,000 people.
  • (14) A rising jobless total and an unemployment rate sticking at a stubbornly high 8% overshadowed a better than expected 27,100 fall in the claimant count in April, which compared with analysts' forecasts for a 20,000 drop.
  • (15) But all of that has been overshadowed by acts of violence away from the gridiron.
  • (16) In old age, individual factors determining the patient's operability overshadows all other aspects.
  • (17) British officials had resigned themselves to BP overshadowing some of Cameron's efforts to forge a strong personal relationship with Obama and start making a political mark in Washington as a much needed new substantial centrist figure from Europe.
  • (18) Experiment 1 confirmed earlier results in showing that the presence of intra-maze cues failed to overshadow learning about extra-maze cues, in spite of the former's apparently greater salience.
  • (19) A tip of the hat also to Eddie Howe and Slaven Bilic, whose good work at Bournemouth and West Ham respectively has been rather overshadowed.
  • (20) The issue may have roiled the political world this week, much as boasting of groping women overshadowed the previous debate, but what really distinguished the third and final television showdown of the reality TV election was the unusual amount of time both candidates devoted to attacking each other’s policies rather than each other.