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veil English

Meaning veil meaning

What does veil mean?
Definitions in simple English

veil Noun

— A veil is a thin piece of cloth that hides a woman's face. Her hair fell over her face like a veil. — A veil is something that hides important information about a situation. The election lifted the thin veil and fully exposed the truth about America.

veil Verb

— If you veil something, you make it hard to see or understand.

veil

— verb to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil women in Afghanistan veil their faces — noun (= head covering) a garment that covers the head and face — noun a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms — noun (= humeral veil) a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl — noun (= caul) the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) — verb (= obscure, hide) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing a hidden message a veiled threat

Synonyms veil synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as veil?

veil English » English

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Topics veil topics

What do people use veil to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive See

Visible
Person Life Marriage

Wedding
Daily life Clothing

Women's clothing
Person Life Die

Mourn

Conjugation veil conjugation

How do you conjugate veil?

veil · verb

Examples veil examples

How do I use veil in a sentence?

Simple sentences

She hid her face behind a veil.
The first rays of the sun tore the cloudy veil and the outline of a rocky island appeared.
They were admirable things for the observer - excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions.
This bride is covering her face with a veil.
It was night, and a veil of darkness covered the streets.

Movie subtitles

When you were kneeling beside my bed, a veil came over my eyes.
So long as they don't break the chancellor's head when pulling on the veil later on.
So is my veil.
It ain't tripe you're eating. It's your veil.
Let your godmother take your veil.
For years I have endeavored to break through the veil which shrouded him and at last I have seized a thread and followed it to Moriarity himself.
I can still see and hear that wild hour. with poor Heathcliff trying to tear away the veil between death and life. crying out to Cathy's soul. to haunt him and torment him. till he died.
Charley, choose some nice nunnery, you'll get a robe and take the veil.
Yes. You'd have liked a bridal veil, wouldn't you?
My veil is ruined!
I'd recognize her with a veil. My hair shows?
She was in her room in front of a mirror, with a black hat on pinning a black veil to it. As if she couldn't wait to see how she would look in mourning.
Drop the veil.
The woman had a veil, so I couldn't see her face.
My sister struggles with depression and she always describes it as a veil. something that gets between her real self and the world.
Take your veil off, Ginevra!
I, Iris Matilda Henderson, a spinster of no particular parish. solemnly renounce my maidenly past and declare that on Thursday 26. I shall take the veil and orange blossom. and change my name to Lady Charles Fotheringail. -Can't he change his name?
Yes, I'm going to buy my veil with it.
Oh, I suppose I can't wear a veil, can I? Well, then, I'll buy a hat.
She gave me my wedding veil.
My veil.
At last the Lama hands over the white veil of friendship and asks us to accept these gifts.
I'd recognize her with a veil.
She was in her room in front of a mirror, with a black hat on. pinning a black veil to it.
Oh, I couldn't see her face she had a heavy black veil on but she had such a nice way with her.
You can put on a false beard and I will put on a veil so we will not be recognized.
You'd have liked a bridal veil, wouldn't you?
My veil. Oh, dear.
You can take cover under this veil, and pass by the guards, to Baghdad!
The average person will drop first one veil, then another, maybe three or four altogether.
Salome dropped her seventh veil of her free will but you will never get the human mind to do that.
Five minutes under narcosis and down comes the seventh veil.
Drop the veil. I'm in the business myself.
And I got the perfect veil for you.
With white veil?
And your veil.

News and current affairs

First, the veil of corruption in Afghanistan must be lifted.
As China has moved toward a market economy, it has developed some of the problems that have plagued the developed countries: special interests that clothe self-serving arguments behind a thin veil of market ideology.
Similarly, kites get tangled in trees, and if you climb the tree to free it, you might look over your neighbor's wall and see a woman without her veil, which would put you in sin.
Sharia law was applied; women who were never forced to do so before had to wear the veil.
As a result, the veil became a mechanism for making their presence felt publicly and gaining credibility within religious debates.
The growing significance of the veil also highlighted important differences between men and women in Morocco.
For many men, Islamist or not, the veil remains a sign of Islamic affiliation and traditional piety.
For many women, however, the veil is a token of liberation - an indication that they have engaged with the Moroccan public in ways that reflect their own sense of religious practice.
Liberal Moroccan feminists understand this use of the veil by many Moroccan women, and they have encouraged a dialogue with veiled activists from the Islamist camp.
By wearing a veil or beard, claiming the right for places to pray at work or school, and demanding special foods, Muslims identify themselves overtly as Muslims.
But Westerners should recognize that when a woman in France or Britain chooses a veil, it is not necessarily a sign of her repression.
SINGAPORE - Behind a veil of secrecy, China's development of strategic and tactical missiles is well into its third generation of modernization.
Beyond football patriotism, the issue of the burqa, the full veil that covers the face and body of only a very few Muslim women in France, has also re-emerged as a focus of agitated attention.
The Islamists could also impose the veil and later on the niqab.

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