Definition of "adumbrate"
verb
third-person singular simple present adumbrates, present participle adumbrating, simple past and past participle adumbrated
To give a vague outline.
Quotations
Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.
1996, John M. Cooper, “Introduction”, in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, page xxii