shroud
verb/ʃraʊd/
/ʃraʊd/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they shroud | /ʃraʊd/ /ʃraʊd/ |
| he / she / it shrouds | /ʃraʊdz/ /ʃraʊdz/ |
| past simple shrouded | /ˈʃraʊdɪd/ /ˈʃraʊdɪd/ |
| past participle shrouded | /ˈʃraʊdɪd/ /ˈʃraʊdɪd/ |
| -ing form shrouding | /ˈʃraʊdɪŋ/ /ˈʃraʊdɪŋ/ |
- shroud something in something (of darkness, clouds, cloth, etc.) to cover or hide something
- The city was shrouded in mist.
- furniture shrouded in dust sheets
- shroud something in something to hide information or keep it secret and mysterious
- His family background is shrouded in mystery.
Word Originlate Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.
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