SHROUDS Synonyms: 132 Similar and Opposite Words

shrouds 1 of 2

noun

plural of shroud

as in veils

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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shrouds

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verb

present tense third-person singular of shroud

as in conceals

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

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as in obscures

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

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as in wraps

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 Understanding this dual existence could be key to solving the origins of dust shrouds in interacting supernovas. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 July 2026 In the hospital’s courtyard, relatives wept over the bodies covered in white burial shrouds. — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026 Graves are dug by hand and bodies are only buried in caskets or shrouds made of biodegradable materials like bamboo or cotton. — Dorany Pineda, Fortune, 2 May 2026 The 39 members of the group were discovered lying on their backs and covered by purple shrouds. — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Mar. 2026 Many of its songs crystallize around samples of choirs singing, their soft syllables dissolving beneath heavy shrouds of reverb. — Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 10 Mar. 2026 The glacier – now wrapped in vast white shrouds in a desperate attempt to slow its melting – emerges as both subject and body, altar and loss. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2026 The 54 unidentified bodies were laid carefully in a long line of white shrouds as Palestinians gathered around the grave site. — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2025

Verb

Officials recommended Friday that Marylanders, especially those with underlying medical conditions, stay indoors as the smoke shrouds the state. — Nicole Pilsbury, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2026 To understand why that shrouds a black hole in mystery, consider how no signal can travel faster than light. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 June 2026 Secrecy shrouds the guest list, although photos of John Legend and the Beckhams at Argentaia have popped on social media. — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 22 May 2026 This ornament, situating them as something between a throw pillow and a hand muff, shrouds the thick-boned fore- and hindquarters that give them a characteristic rolling gait. — Andrew Norman Wilson, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 And then there’s all the emerging tech, like a device that shrouds your body in inflammation-reducing red light at Carillon’s Miami Wellness Resort’s Inner Glow retreat, and a zero-gravity recliner at Canyon Ranch Lenox that can rescue you from menopausal rage at its M/Power retreat. — Erica Sloan, SELF, 23 Jan. 2026 The closure shrouds the 8,000-foot-high plateau and its elk, bison and occasional backcountry skiers in a winter wilderness that some advocates hope to protect and others seek to unlock. — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025 Through the haze of doom that shrouds climate science shines the passion behind the quest to understand and solve one of the greatest challenges humanity has faced. — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025 So much of the suffering caused by conditions like PCOS, endometriosis, and menopause is the secrecy and shame that shrouds them. — Maria Yagoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2024

Recent Examples of Synonyms for shrouds

Noun

Their heads are covered in waist-length teal veils, and black canvas work aprons cover their gray habits.

— Adora Namigadde, NPR, 23 July 2026
With diagnostic precision, shifting baseline syndrome puts a name on something that most of us have experienced—the ways in which the fog of forgetting veils experience.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026

Definition of veils

Verb

This conceals them in a way that’s visually cohesive with the rest of the outdoor space and looks intentional.

— Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2026
Advertisement Best of all is Deutch’s Gail, whose sunbeam demeanor barely conceals her flirty, mischievous side.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 10 July 2026

Definition of conceals

Verb

This is a shame, and not only because the book’s style obscures its significance as the most high-profile effort by that date to marry what were then the two most important currents of French philosophy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
Studying differences at the state level further obscures the signal by combining rural California with San Francisco Bay Area counties or upstate New York with New York City.

— Marc Lipsitch, STAT, 21 July 2026

Definition of obscures

Noun

Throughout history, kings, queens and other members of the royal family have donned luxurious fur stoles, floor-length fur coats, capes with mink trims and cloaks with ermine edges (that's weasel fur).

— Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 14 June 2026
The housekeepers greet me with genuine care, the bartenders create cocktails with panache and smiles, and the doormen and women jauntily pose for pictures in their thick Batman-style winter cloaks.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026

Definition of cloaks

Verb

But mostly, the monarch persists because life’s job is to live; because within those thimble-size bodies hides a dynamo of survival that puts our most incredible machines to shame.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
The aggregate number hides exactly the variance that matters for risk assessment.

— Prashanth Harshangi, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of hides

Verb

As his year of solitude passes, his grip on reality blurs the line between the living and non-living.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 July 2026
As the animal’s eyes morph into those of the cowboy, the imagery blurs the line between predator and lover before the panther suddenly lunges.

— Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026

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