Crossword clues for hooding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hood \Hood\ (h[oo^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooding.]
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To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.
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To cover; to hide; to blind.
While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, ``Amen.''
--Shak.Hooding end (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of hood English)
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 or physical control of enemy forces be treated humanely. Hooding is potentially dangerous, especially when a prisoner's hands are also bound. It is considered to be an act of torture when its primary purpose is sensory deprivation during interrogation; it causes "disorientation, isolation, and dread." According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, hooding is used to prevent people from seeing and to disorient them, and also to prevent them from breathing freely. Hooding is sometimes used in conjunction with beatings to increase anxiety as to when and where the blows will fall. Hooding also allows the interrogators to remain anonymous and thus to act with impunity. Moreover, if a group of prisoners is hooded, the interrogator can play them off against each other by pretending, for instance, that some of them are cooperating, which the prisoners will be unable to verify.
In 1997, the United Nations Committee Against Torture had concluded that hooding constituted torture, a position it reiterated in 2004 after the committee's special rapporteur had "received information on certain methods that have been condoned and used to secure information from suspected terrorists."
Hooding is a common prelude to execution.
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.