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Meaning shroud meaning

What does shroud mean?

shroud

— verb (= cover) cover as if with a shroud The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery — verb wrap in a shroud shroud the corpses — verb form a cover like a shroud Mist shrouded the castle — noun a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute — noun (= pall) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped — noun (= sheet) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

Synonyms shroud synonyms

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shroud English » English

cover cerement pall veil envelop cloak mantle wrap winding-sheet screen hide covering winding sheet sheet enshroud conceal blanket mask enfold cerecloth camouflage wrap in a winding-sheet winding-clothes weather sheet tack obscure muffle mainsheet enwrap dodge disguise cover up clothe casing cap burial cloth wrapping wrap up windingsheet winding cloth whiteout white out wheel shroud wheel cap top thrash tarpaulin swathe swat surround

Topics shroud topics

What do people use shroud to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Cover

Wrap
Person Sense, perceive See

Visible
Person Life Die

Bury
Physical actions Arrange Put

Fill, cover

Conjugation shroud conjugation

How do you conjugate shroud?

shroud · verb

Examples shroud examples

How do I use shroud in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He is surrounded by a shroud of mourning.

Movie subtitles

Penelope manages to put off the choice of the new husband as long as until she will have finished weaving the shroud.
To shroud my clothes, the black of night.
Perhaps you expected to see me with a scythe and a shroud?
And your shroud!
If you take, say, 50 H bombs in the 100 megaton range and jacket them with cobalt thorium G when they are exploded, they will produce a doomsday shroud a lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle the Earth for 93 years!
Fragments of stained glass lay on his body like a shroud.
But I saw him in his shroud.
Now Charlie the barman Has gotten a shroud.
I bet you don't have a shroud for the burial.
The shroud of Kah-to-Bey.
First the shroud, then the body.
Get Paul to help crate up the mummy and the shroud. - We can ship them out at the same time.
Strangely enough, the murder coincides with the loss of the shroud covering the body of Kah-to-Bey.
The sacred shroud? It's been stolen?
Take that black pancake off your head. and climb out of that shroud.
Mummy Dust to make me old. To shroud my clothes, the black of night.
Maybe we'll catch the ghost with his shroud down.
You'd cast lots on a dying man's belly for his shroud!
I finally started to breathe again and shook off the shroud of fear. the rattler had thrown over me.
Success will fit you like a shroud.
A shroud?
Tie the cord to the shroud.
If you take 50 H bombs in the 100 megaton range. and jacket them with cobalt thorium G. when they are exploded, they will produce a doomsday shroud. a lethal cloud of radioactivity. which will encircle the Earth for 93 years!
A new shroud!
You know, the one with the-the lovely shroud.
If I do die before thee, prithee shroud me in one of those same sheets.
A sailor's shroud to you, boy.
Shroud.
But the secrecy the shroud of paranoid security to which we've had to adjust have made it seem longer.
Born in a gas cloud, maturing as a yellow sun decaying as a red giant and dying as a white dwarf enveloped in its shroud of gas.
This money is for the year's assessment on the St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage in Calumet City, Illinois.
The purple of power - is the best shroud.
He is a terror. It'd be like preparing your own shroud.
But though there are few of them, their preservation is near-perfect, for the storm that carried them in also stirred up the mud and, as they died, that settled back and covered them like a shroud.
I was turned on my back on a black shroud.

News and current affairs

Moreover, they live behind a shroud of secrecy: how they use official airplanes, the civil servants they employ for personal service, not to mention the mistresses, has always been more or less considered private territory.
Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop.

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