1 a piece of fabric that a dead person's body is wrapped in before it is buried:
a burial shroud
2 ~ of sth (written) a thing that covers, surrounds or hides sth:
The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy. * a shroud of smoke
verb [VN] [usuallypassive] ~ sth in sth
1 (of darkness, clouds, fabric, etc.) to cover or hide sth:
The city was shrouded in mist. * furniture shrouded in dust sheets
2 to hide information or keep it secret and mysterious:
His family background is shrouded in mystery.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shroud is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is shroud a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, shroud is tagged as noun.
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