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Adumbration vs Overshadow - What's the difference?

adumbration | overshadow |

As a noun adumbration

is shading.

As a verb overshadow is

to obscure something by casting a shadow.

adumbration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, arts) Shading.
  • A faint sketch; an outline, a brief representation.
  • (figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation of something.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 238:
    • The merest adumbration of an apology on Baron Veen's part would clinch the matter with a token of gracious finality.
  • (heraldry) The shadow or outline of a figure.
  • (literature) A vague indication of what is to come.

    • overshadow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To obscure something by casting a shadow.
  • To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.