Synonyms for shroud
ʃraʊdshroud

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1. shroud

   Synonyms:
   cover, hide, veil, obscure, darken, palliate, envelop, shelter

   Antonyms:
   expose, reveal, unveil, elucidate, discover, uncover

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1. shroudnoun

   a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute

   Synonyms:
   cerement, winding-clothes, pall, weather sheet, tack, winding-sheet, mainsheet, sheet

2. sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroudnoun

   (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind

   Synonyms:
   plane, bed sheet, weather sheet, canvas, pall, sheet, flat solid, tack, winding-sheet, sheet of paper, sail, canvass, tabloid, winding-clothes, saddlery, mainsheet, stable gear, cerement, piece of paper, rag, tacking

3. pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothesverb

   burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

   Synonyms:
   cerement, winding-clothes, weather sheet, mantle, winding-sheet, chill, tack, curtain, pall, drape, mainsheet, sheet, drapery

4. shroud, enshroud, hide, coververb

   cover as if with a shroud

   "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"

   Synonyms:
   cut through, veil, get over, hide out, embrace, brood, plow, wrap up, enshroud, compensate, breed, encompass, continue, treat, hatch, incubate, report, track, extend, cut across, blot out, deal, obscure, obliterate, underwrite, overcompensate, address, spread over, hide, conceal, traverse, pass over, comprehend, handle, overlay, cover, cross, get across, cover up, insure

5. shroudverb

   form a cover like a shroud

   "Mist shrouded the castle"

   Synonyms:
   enshroud, cover, hide

6. shroudverb

   wrap in a shroud

   "shroud the corpses"

   Synonyms:
   enshroud, cover, hide

Matched Categories

1. • Cover
   • Line
   • Seafaring
   • Wrap

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1. shroudnoun

   Synonyms:
   winding sheet, grave-clothes

2. shroudverb

   Synonyms:
   cover, hide, veil, mask, cloak, screen, bury, muffle

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. shroudnoun

   Synonyms:
   winding-sheet, grave-clothes, cerements

2. shroudverb

   Synonyms:
   mask, screen, cloak, conceal

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1. List of paraphrases for "shroud":

   surround, housing, immersive, bra, cover, veil, liner

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1. List of known nicknames for "SHROUD":

   Uriel Aguillon

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How to use shroud in a sentence?

1. Mariana Fulger:

   A shroud lies ahead and behind many truths. Reality is (sometimes) a glass wall no ray of light reaches.

2. Ehsan Sehgal:

   The birth takes place without a dress; whereas, burial travels with the shroud.

3. Mariana Fulger:

   Reality is a puzzle revealing itself one portion at a time, always where the deepest shroud falls. Wanting to piece the clues together, you are only losing yourself in the maze.

4. Charles de LEUSSE:

   We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

5. Brian Castner:

   The civilian death toll weve uncovered in just a handful of strikes suggests the shroud of secrecy surrounding the U.S. role in Somalias war is actually a smoke screen for impunity.