Meanings
comparative more shrouded · superlative most shrouded
- Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
- Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 341 more example
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of shroud
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Englishschrouded
- Englishshrouded
From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.
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