Meaning

8 senses
  1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

  2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

    Grabtuch, Leichentuch

    са́ванsávan, пелена́pelená, покро́вpokróv

  3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

  4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

  5. One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.

    Want

    ва́нтыvánty

  6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

  7. A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.

  8. The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Examples

29 sentences
  1. The room is shrouded in smoke.

    ruКомната окутана дымом.

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  2. The shroud obscured the dancer's face.

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  3. The mountain was shrouded in fog.

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  4. Her past is shrouded in mystery.

    ruЕё прошлое покрыто тайной.

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  5. Her life was shrouded in mystery.

    ruЕё жизнь была окутана тайной.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
dress for the dead:
mast support:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
dress for the dead:
mast support:

Origin

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą (“shroud,

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą (“shroud, dress, attire”). Compare Proto-Germanic *skrūdijaną (“to shroud”).

Variant of shred.

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Forms

plural: shrouds
Singularshroud
Pluralshrouds

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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