Crossword clues for shrouded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shroud \Shroud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shrouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrouding.] [Cf. AS. scr?dan. See Shroud, n.]
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To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
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To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
--Sir W. Raleigh.Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame.
--Dryden.
Shrouded \Shroud"ed\, a. Provided with a shroud or shrouds.
Shrouded gear (Mach.), a cogwheel or pinion having flanges which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.
Wiktionary
1 Wearing, or provided with a shroud. 2 concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud. v
(en-past of: shroud)
Usage examples of "shrouded".
There were no lights in Tel Aviv that night except the fires of burning buildings, which reflected against the smoke-filled sky and shrouded the city with an eerie glow.
As the camera panned the devastation, in the distance, where the smoke and radioactive cloud had not yet entirely shrouded the earth, the moon rose above the horizon, glowing blood red through the desecrated sky.
The mist swirled in smoky vortexes around the furniture and shrouded the room in opaque haze.
As they passed the first shrouded alcove, Langdon felt taut, like a contestant on some surreal game show.
Brother Francis snatched up the precious document and hiked along beside the robber, thanking him profusely and blessing him repeatedly while the robber guided the ass toward the shrouded archers.
Her own dark hair shrouded her face, a black curtain about her cheeks, hiding whatever she felt.
The twilight line of the shrouded Nun had crept past the low mesa, and Rod knew that the landing site was immersed in black night.
Tressa drew close to the shrouded shape and stood before it, gazing intently upon the outlined features of the last of the Yezidees.
Questor pointed in a sweeping motion to the mountains that ringed the valley, their peaks and forests shrouded in gray.
A stretch of wooded hills lay before them, shrouded in trailers of mist that hung across the trees like factory smoke.
His eyes stayed on the approaching castle, on the mist and shadows that shrouded it.
The mists that shrouded Sterling Silver swirled in murky trailers before him, and the darkness of coming night slipped across the land.
He rode in a fog that shrouded mind and eyes both, straining for a glimpse of what was real through the maze of shadow pictures.
The mists shrouded the city like a soft filter, and the gray, wintry cast that characterized so much of the valley was banished.
He stood at the rim of a valley that was shrouded in mist and twilight.