shrouded

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adjective

Wearing, or provided with a shroud.

Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveshrouded (comparative more shrouded, superlative most shrouded)

comparative more shrouded · superlative most shrouded

  1. Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
  2. 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 34
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    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
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of shroud

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Middle Englishschrouded
  2. Englishshrouded

From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.

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