SHROUD


Meaning of SHROUD in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be shrouded in fog literary

The streets of London were shrouded in fog.

be shrouded/veiled in mystery (= be unable to be explained )

The origins of this tradition remain shrouded in mystery.

shrouded in secrecy

His work was shrouded in secrecy .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Smoke cast a gray shroud over the city yesterday afternoon.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But a moment later, the shroud reappears, driven together by the churning of a deep distributed mob.

But what else could explain this shroud of secrecy?

It looks like a man wrapped in a shroud .

Now in the shroud of mist I see only the gloomy prospect of losing it.

Stowage for a Danforth-type anchor is provided in the starboard side deck close to the shroud anchorage.

We rolled heavily as I clung to the shrouds scanning the reef as best I could.

When she was in her forties she embroidered herself a fine white-on-white linen shroud .

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

mist

The mist also shrouded the fish and we thrashed away mightily, to no avail.

Grey is the colour of the mist that shrouded my thoughts during this period.

It was not an inviting prospect; grey as usual with the damned mist shrouding the jetties.

mystery

The precise distribution of this outflow of foreign investment is shrouded in mystery .

He shrouded their work in mystery , insisting that no outsider be told what they were up to.

The final chapter of the vase makers' story is shrouded in mystery .

Cal, meanwhile, is shrouded in mystery , Steve Mariucci having just arrived from Green Bay to be head coach.

The men were carrying out top-secret research into radar, and until now the incident has been shrouded in mystery .

The business at the Tower was still shrouded in mystery .

They seemed to be shrouded in mystery , and Fran was itching to find out more.

Their coming, unlike ours, is shrouded in mystery and obscure infant memories.

secrecy

The military in the Soviet Union tended to be shrouded in even more secrecy than most other Soviet institutions.

However this work is shrouded in secrecy because of the patent lawyers.

Here, all is shrouded in secrecy .

It is hard to establish the truth, because the procedures are shrouded in secrecy .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A thickening fog shrouded the top of the mountain.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A thickening fog shrouds Edinburgh Castle.

And there won't be much change this afternoon, with the full blanket of cloud still shrouding the country.

Even his personal history was shrouded in obscurity.

It was a position of strange intimacy; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world.

Joseph was shrouded beneath a grey, black-striped blanket, and rested his rifle across his saddle pommel.

The old man, shrouded in his black cape, was more silent than usual.

These women dwelt in a land where all was dim and shrouded in twilight.

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