CLOAK


Meaning of CLOAK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kloʊk ]

( cloaks, cloaking, cloaked)

1.

A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.

N-COUNT

2.

A cloak of something such as mist or snow completely covers and hides something.

Today most of England will be under a cloak of thick mist.

= blanket

N-SING : N of n

3.

If you refer to something as a cloak , you mean that it is intended to hide the truth about something.

Preparations for the wedding were made under a cloak of secrecy...

N-SING : N of/for n

4.

To cloak something means to cover it or hide it. ( WRITTEN )

...the decision to cloak major tourist attractions in unsightly hoardings...

The beautiful sweeping coastline was cloaked in mist.

VERB : V n in n , V-ed

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