SHROUD Synonyms: 131 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈshrau̇d

Definition of shroud

as in veil

something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth the truth of the affair will always be hidden under a shroud of secrecy

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verb

as in to conceal

to keep secret or shut off from view shrouded the fact that the child had been adopted

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as in to obscure

to make dark, dim, or indistinct the smog shrouded our aerial view of the city

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as in to wrap

to surround or cover closely during rainy season the summit of the mountain is shrouded in mist

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Noun

Like the men, the women all wore overalls, shapeless shrouds of dark denim. — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026 Upon its ’01 debut at retail, the Air Jordan 16 introduced a first-of-its-kind feature to the Air Jordan line in the form of a removable shroud covering the shoelaces. — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 11 July 2026

Verb

The facility is largely shrouded in mystery; there are no publicly available schematics, and experts largely glean their insights by analyzing satellite imagery. — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 22 July 2026 Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, were among the lucky guests invited to witness the nuptials, which were shrouded in mystery as even those attending were given little detail about the event. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for shroud

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Noun

For her wedding look, the singer wore a Victorian-style gown with a traditional veil and styled her hair half-up, half-down.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
Phoebe wore an ethereal veil in her blonde hair, which was styled in a half-up, half-down hairdo with bouncy curls.

— Christina Perrier, InStyle, 28 July 2026

Definition of veil

Verb

The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
The sign concealed a smaller building that was a holdout on the corner of West 34th Street and Broadway when Macy's was built in the early 1900s.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of conceal

Verb

Bursting with juicy mango and wrapped in a soft, pillowy haze, this IPA brings big Midway energy to every sip.

— Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 21 July 2026
The sandals are completed by delicate, adjustable ankle straps that wrap over the top of the foot and fasten with a buckle closure.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 21 July 2026

Definition of wrap

Verb

Olsen first teased his relationship with Dockerty in October, soft-launching his new beau by blurring out his face in photos on social media.

— Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026
Both kinds of misconduct blur the line between a victim and perpetrator, experts in child protection said.

— Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica, 20 July 2026

Definition of blur

Verb

More than three hundred unionized workers at the Victoria & Albert Museum are set to vote on a strike action spurred by the broiling heat that has enveloped the city in recent weeks, The Guardian reports.

— News Desk, Artforum, 27 July 2026
The increasing temperatures come courtesy of the slight expansion of a heat dome that has enveloped much of the central and southern Plains, the southern Rockies, the Desert Southwest and the upper Midwest.

— Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 27 July 2026

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