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enshroud
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Word definitions for enshroud in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery" [syn: shroud , hide , cover ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A dense fog enshrouded the mountain peaks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enshroud \En*shroud"\, v. t. To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud. --Churchill.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) to cover with (or as if with) a shroud
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + shroud (n.). Related: Enshrouded ; enshrouding .
Usage examples of enshroud.
A tall weeping willow tree bowed forward gracefully to enshroud them in its protective arms.
Usually the great cloud that enshrouds the plateau is largely steam, with only a little smoke and ash, but I fear that now many of the volcanoes are erupting.
His mortal form went plummeting to the earth but before Daklin could even draw the hook back from his waist, a mist enshrouded the vampire and when it cleared, a huge, black winged hawk was flying upwards.
The stars were out again, though they were enshrouded, in every direction, by the black dust.
Some of the first astronomers to see Venus through the telescope immediately recognized that they were examining a world enshrouded by clouds.
They had lived with this comet, in a manner of speaking, for 16 months, watched it split, the pieces, enshrouded by clouds of dust, playing hide-and-seek and spreading out in their orbits.
The smoke would disperse rapidly, enshrouding the boulevard between the two casinos in a gray haze.
But nosomething dark loomed through the enshrouding mist, something that tossed and made the ground shake.
She swiveled quickly and peered back at him, hardly more than a dark shape in the enshrouding fog.
His silent paces carried him along the vacated street, into darkness that gathered him into its own enshrouding folds.
The Shadow foresaw that Pomelo City would automatically regain life, when the menace that enshrouded it was gone.
Mount Rotolo and the slow approach to towering Mount Gidris, which was enshrouded in thick clouds.
It may be doubted whether any reliabce whatever can be placed upon the assertions or protesting denials of any profession vivisector now drawing a large income from the vivisection of animals, whose interests would possibly be affeted by failure to produce startling results, or by removal of the secrecy that now enshrouds the laboratory.
She became aware of a monk walking before her, head enshrouded in his cucullus, or cowl.
Sierra Madre del Sur lay enshrouded before them, unseen yet palpable, silently calling out in the old tongues, summoning back the scattered Zapotec and Mixtec nations to reclaim the land of their ancestors.