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shroud

(shroud)

1. A cloth used to wrap a body for burial; a winding sheet.

2. Something that conceals, protects, or screens: under a shroud of fog.

a. Nautical One of a set of ropes or wire cables stretched from the masthead to the sides of a vessel to support the mast.

b. A similar supporting line for a smokestack or comparable structure.

c. One of the ropes connecting the harness and canopy of a parachute.

v. shroud·ed, shroud·ing, shrouds

v.tr.

1. To wrap (a corpse) in burial clothing.

a. To envelop and obscure or shut off from sight: Fog shrouded the city. See Synonyms at block.

b. To envelop or be associated with and make difficult to understand: "Diabetes continued as a kind of underground disease, shrouded in myth and bereft of advocates" (James S. Hirsch).

3. Archaic To shelter; protect.

v.intr. Archaic

To take cover; find shelter.

[Middle English schrud, garment, from Old English scrūd.]

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shroud

(ʃraʊd)

1. (Clothing & Fashion) a garment or piece of cloth used to wrap a dead body

2. anything that envelops like a garment: a shroud of mist.

3. a protective covering for a piece of equipment

4. (Astronautics) astronautics a streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch

5. (Nautical Terms) nautical one of a pattern of ropes or cables used to stay a mast

6. (Building) any of a set of wire cables stretched between a smokestack or similar structure and the ground, to prevent side sway

7. (Aeronautics) Also called: shroud line any of a set of lines running from the canopy of a parachute to the harness

8. (tr) to wrap in a shroud

9. (tr) to cover, envelop, or hide

10. archaic to seek or give shelter

[Old English scrūd garment; related to Old Norse skrūth gear]

ˈshroudless adj

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shroud

(ʃraʊd)

n.

1. a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.

2. something that covers, conceals, or protects: a shroud of darkness.

3. any of a number of fixed ropes or wires that converge from the head of a ship's mast and keep it from swaying.

4. Also called shroud′ line`. any of a number of suspension cords of a parachute attaching the load to the canopy.

v.t.

5. to wrap or clothe for burial; enshroud.

6. to cover; hide from view.

7. to veil in obscurity or mystery.

8. Archaic. to take shelter.

[before 1000; Old English scrūd, c. Old Norse skrūth apparel]

shroud

Past participle: shrouded
Gerund: shrouding

Imperative
shroud
shroud

Present
I shroud
you shroud
he/she/it shrouds
we shroud
you shroud
they shroud

Preterite
I shrouded
you shrouded
he/she/it shrouded
we shrouded
you shrouded
they shrouded

Present Continuous
I am shrouding
you are shrouding
he/she/it is shrouding
we are shrouding
you are shrouding
they are shrouding

Present Perfect
I have shrouded
you have shrouded
he/she/it has shrouded
we have shrouded
you have shrouded
they have shrouded

Past Continuous
I was shrouding
you were shrouding
he/she/it was shrouding
we were shrouding
you were shrouding
they were shrouding

Past Perfect
I had shrouded
you had shrouded
he/she/it had shrouded
we had shrouded
you had shrouded
they had shrouded

Future
I will shroud
you will shroud
he/she/it will shroud
we will shroud
you will shroud
they will shroud

Future Perfect
I will have shrouded
you will have shrouded
he/she/it will have shrouded
we will have shrouded
you will have shrouded
they will have shrouded

Future Continuous
I will be shrouding
you will be shrouding
he/she/it will be shrouding
we will be shrouding
you will be shrouding
they will be shrouding

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been shrouding
you have been shrouding
he/she/it has been shrouding
we have been shrouding
you have been shrouding
they have been shrouding

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been shrouding
you will have been shrouding
he/she/it will have been shrouding
we will have been shrouding
you will have been shrouding
they will have been shrouding

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been shrouding
you had been shrouding
he/she/it had been shrouding
we had been shrouding
you had been shrouding
they had been shrouding

Conditional
I would shroud
you would shroud
he/she/it would shroud
we would shroud
you would shroud
they would shroud

Past Conditional
I would have shrouded
you would have shrouded
he/she/it would have shrouded
we would have shrouded
you would have shrouded
they would have shrouded

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Noun	1.	shroud - a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute line - something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible; "a washing line" chute, parachute - rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
	2.	shroud - (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind mainsheet, weather sheet, tack, sheet sailing, seafaring, navigation - the work of a sailor futtock shroud - shroud that is part of a ship's rigging line - something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible; "a washing line" ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
	3.	shroud - burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped cerement, winding-clothes, winding-sheet, pall burial garment - cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial
Verb	1.	shroud - cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery" enshroud, hide, cover enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap - enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house"
	2.	shroud - form a cover like a shroud; "Mist shrouded the castle" spread over, cover - form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave"
	3.	shroud - wrap in a shroud; "shroud the corpses" wrap, wrap up - arrange or fold as a cover or protection; "wrap the baby before taking her out"; "Wrap the present"

shroud

noun

1. winding sheet, grave clothes, cerecloth, cerement a burial shroud

2. covering, veil, mantle, screen, cloud, pall a parked car huddled under a shroud of grey snow

verb

1. conceal, cover, screen, hide, surround, blanket, veil, cloak, swathe, envelop Mist shrouded the outline of the palace.

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shroud

verb

1. To cut off from sight:

block (out), conceal, hide, obscure, obstruct, screen, shut off (or out).

2. To surround and cover completely so as to obscure:

cloak, clothe, enfold, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, infold, invest, veil, wrap.

3. To prevent (something) from being known:

cloak, conceal, cover (up), enshroud, hide, hush (up), mask, veil.

Idioms: keep under cover, keep under wraps.

Translations

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mortaja obenque sudario

shroud

[ʃraʊd]

A. N

1. (around corpse) → sudario m, mortaja f
the Shroud of Turin → la Sábana Santa de Turín, el Santo Sudario de Turín

2. (fig) a shroud of mystery → un velo or halo de misterio

3. shrouds (Naut) → obenques mpl

B. VT

1. [+ corpse] → amortajar

2. (fig) → velar, cubrir
the castle was shrouded in mist → el castillo estaba envuelto en niebla
the whole thing is shrouded in mystery → el asunto está envuelto en un halo de misterio
the whole affair is shrouded in secrecy → el asunto se mantiene en secreto

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shroud

(ʃraud) noun

1. a cloth wrapped around a dead body. mortaja

2. something that covers. a shroud of mist.velo

verb

to cover or hide. The incident was shrouded in mystery.envolver

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As they drew near, the widow recognized in every face some trait of former friends, long forgotten, but now returning, as if from their old graves, to warn her to prepare a shroud; or, with purpose almost as unwelcome, to exhibit their wrinkles and infirmity, and claim her as their companion by the tokens of her own decay.

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At the next stile the pathway branches off: there are two roads before her--one along by the hedgerow, which will by and by lead her into the road again, the other across the fields, which will take her much farther out of the way into the Scantlands, low shrouded pastures where she will see nobody.

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By the lakes that thus outspread Their lone waters, lone and dead, - Their sad waters, sad and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily, - By the mountains - near the river Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever, - By the grey woods, - by the swamp Where the toad and the newt encamp, - By the dismal tarns and pools Where dwell the Ghouls, - By each spot the most unholy - In each nook most melancholy, - There the traveller meets aghast Sheeted Memories of the Past - Shrouded forms that start and sigh As they pass the wanderer by - White-robed forms of friends long given, In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

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She's all in white,' he says, 'wi' white flowers in her hair, and she's awful mad, and she's got a shroud hanging over her arm, and she says she'll put it on me at five in the morning.'