shroud

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Synonyms: shrowd, stroud, shrood, shrout

Antonyms: shrowd, stroud, shrood, shrout

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Noun

1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
5. One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
7. A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.

Verb

1. To cover with a shroud.
2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
   • The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
   • The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
3. To take shelter or harbour.

Noun

1. The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Verb

1. To lop the branches from (a tree).

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