Shroud meaning

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Any of a set of ropes or wires stretched from a ship's side to a masthead to offset lateral strain on the mast.
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(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
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The definition of a shroud is a veil or a cloth used to wrap a body for burial.

An example of a shroud is the large, sheet-like piece of cloth which was believed to have been used to wrap Jesus.

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To shroud is to wrap someone in special burial clothing or to conceal something from view.

When you cover a person in special burial clothing, this is an example of a situation where you shroud the person.

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A cloth used to wrap a body for burial; a winding sheet.
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Something that conceals, protects, or screens.

Under a shroud of fog.

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To wrap (a corpse) in burial clothing.
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To shelter; protect.
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To take cover; find shelter.
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A cloth used to wrap a corpse for burial; winding sheet.
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Something that covers, protects, or screens; veil; shelter.
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Any of the set of lines from the canopy of a parachute to the harness.
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To wrap (a corpse) in a shroud.
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To hide from view; cover; screen.
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To shelter and protect.
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To take shelter.
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That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
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Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
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That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
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A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
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The branching top of a tree; foliage.

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One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
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To cover with a shroud.
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To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.

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To take shelter or harbour.
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Origin of shroud

  • Middle English schrud garment from Old English scrūd
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Old English scrÅ«d, cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship") (> Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire")).
    From Wiktionary

Shroud Sentence Examples

  • The "sudario" from which it takes its name is asserted to be the shroud in which Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of Jesus.

  • It is, however, highly probable that he meant to strike at London if naval affairs went well, but that he was glad to have at hand an alternative which would shroud a maritime failure under military laurels.

  • we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud," with the passage which follows, contain more vividly, perhaps, than anything which Coleridge has written, the expression of the shaping and colouring function which he assigns, in the Biographia Literaria, to imagination.

  • People are buried in simple caskets or a shroud.

  • Black Shroud: Covers you in a black shroud of darkness that hurts enemies when they attack for a short time.

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