I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be shrouded in fog literary
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The streets of London were shrouded in fog.
be shrouded/veiled in mystery (= be unable to be explained )
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The origins of this tradition remain shrouded in mystery.
shrouded in secrecy
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His work was shrouded in secrecy .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Smoke cast a gray shroud over the city yesterday afternoon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But a moment later, the shroud reappears, driven together by the churning of a deep distributed mob.
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But what else could explain this shroud of secrecy?
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It looks like a man wrapped in a shroud .
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Now in the shroud of mist I see only the gloomy prospect of losing it.
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Stowage for a Danforth-type anchor is provided in the starboard side deck close to the shroud anchorage.
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We rolled heavily as I clung to the shrouds scanning the reef as best I could.
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When she was in her forties she embroidered herself a fine white-on-white linen shroud .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mist
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The mist also shrouded the fish and we thrashed away mightily, to no avail.
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Grey is the colour of the mist that shrouded my thoughts during this period.
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It was not an inviting prospect; grey as usual with the damned mist shrouding the jetties.
mystery
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The precise distribution of this outflow of foreign investment is shrouded in mystery .
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He shrouded their work in mystery , insisting that no outsider be told what they were up to.
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The final chapter of the vase makers' story is shrouded in mystery .
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Cal, meanwhile, is shrouded in mystery , Steve Mariucci having just arrived from Green Bay to be head coach.
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The men were carrying out top-secret research into radar, and until now the incident has been shrouded in mystery .
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The business at the Tower was still shrouded in mystery .
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They seemed to be shrouded in mystery , and Fran was itching to find out more.
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Their coming, unlike ours, is shrouded in mystery and obscure infant memories.
secrecy
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The military in the Soviet Union tended to be shrouded in even more secrecy than most other Soviet institutions.
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However this work is shrouded in secrecy because of the patent lawyers.
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Here, all is shrouded in secrecy .
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It is hard to establish the truth, because the procedures are shrouded in secrecy .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A thickening fog shrouded the top of the mountain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A thickening fog shrouds Edinburgh Castle.
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And there won't be much change this afternoon, with the full blanket of cloud still shrouding the country.
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Even his personal history was shrouded in obscurity.
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It was a position of strange intimacy; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world.
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Joseph was shrouded beneath a grey, black-striped blanket, and rested his rifle across his saddle pommel.
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The old man, shrouded in his black cape, was more silent than usual.
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These women dwelt in a land where all was dim and shrouded in twilight.