Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of.

synonyms: outline, sketch.

Roget 554: represent, delineate; depict, depicture^†; portray; take a likeness, catch a likeness etc. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe etc. 594; trace, copy; mold.    dress up; illustrate, symbolize.    paint etc. 556; carve etc. 557; engrave etc. 558.    personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act; play etc. (drama) 599; mimic etc. (imitate) 19; hold the mirror up to nature.    ... show more

Roget 421: be dark etc. adj.. darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate^†; obumbrate^†, adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim^†, bedarken^†; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom.    extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt.    turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights.    ... show more

Roget 521: employ a metaphor etc. n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow forth, apply, allude to.   

Give to understand.

synonyms: insinuate, intimate.

Dutch: insinueren