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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enshroud
verb
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▪ A dense fog enshrouded the mountain peaks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enshroud

Enshroud \En*shroud"\, v. t. To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.
--Churchill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enshroud

1580s, from en- (1) "make, put in" + shroud (n.). Related: Enshrouded; enshrouding.

Wiktionary
enshroud

vb. (context transitive English) to cover with (or as if with) a shroud

WordNet
enshroud

v. cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery" [syn: shroud, hide, cover]

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.