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hooding
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vb. (present participle of hood English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hood \Hood\ (h[oo^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooding .] To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage. The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned. --Pope. To cover; to hide; to blind. While grace is saying, ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hooding is the placing of a hood over the entire head of a prisoner. One legal scholar considers the hooding of prisoners to be a violation of international law , specifically the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions , which demand that persons under custody ...
Usage examples of hooding.
I did not know for certain, of course, because of my hooding, whether or not there might have been a man in the cage with us, a guard, perhaps, or even, say, an unhooded female slave, one of the instructresses, for example, perhaps charged to observe our deportment.
I did not think our hooding was to conceal our beauty from the casual glances of men.
I supposed the motivations of the hooding, in part, might have been to remind us that we were slaves, and men could do these things to us, but, too, I suspected, it was to keep us in "slave ignorance," a condition often deemed appropriate for women in bondage.
This custom is dictated by considerations similar to those involved in the hooding of mating slaves, considerations having to do with the preclusion of interpersonal complications.
He hauled back on the hooding controls, lifting away on the ship's nose, trying to avoid it.
The nuances of hooding and unhooding the crystals, of riding and side-slipping wind currents, and of avoiding downdrafts and lightfalls that could change the momentum and responsiveness of an airship in an instant were not easily mastered.
He hauled back on the hooding controls, lifting away on the ship’s nose, trying to avoid it.
The nuances of hooding and unhooding the crystals, of riding and sideslipping wind currents, and of avoiding downdrafts and lightfalls that could change the momentum and responsiveness of an airship in an instant were not easily mastered.
If I listened carefully, my captors perhaps being less careful than before, given my hooding, I might be able to determine to whom the key was delivered.
In protectorates, speaking from personal experience, they use only moderate hooding, they go easy on the monotonous noise, they deprive the body of sleep only in rare instances.
When we speak of the hooding experience, with or without monotonous noise, and when you've gone through this experience and you're able to function with very little dread, this is when you're entitled to regard yourself as fortune's favorite.
Twice more the maneuver was repeated, then Romilly let the hawk finish her meal in peace, before hooding her and setting her back on the block.