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Synonyms for shroud
ʃraʊdshroud
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Princeton's WordNet
shroudnoun
a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
Synonyms:
cerement, winding-clothes, pall, weather sheet, tack, winding-sheet, mainsheet, sheetsheet, 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, tackingpall, 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, draperyshroud, 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, insureshroudverb
form a cover like a shroud
"Mist shrouded the castle"
shroudverb
wrap in a shroud
"shroud the corpses"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
shroudnoun
Synonyms:
winding sheet, grave-clothesshroudverb
Synonyms:
cover, hide, veil, mask, cloak, screen, bury, muffle
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
shroudnoun
Synonyms:
winding-sheet, grave-clothes, cerementsshroudverb
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "SHROUD":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#224 | report | |
#249 | address | |
#701 | track | |
#846 | cover | |
#1056 | continue | |
#1083 | cross | |
#1274 | deal | |
#1421 | housing | |
#1853 | sheet | |
#2465 | handle | |
#2880 | hide | |
#3758 | treat | |
#4010 | plane | |
#4532 | extend | |
#5818 | canvas | |
#6682 | shelter | |
#7106 | bra | |
#7484 | breed | |
#8297 | surround | |
#9767 | sail | |
#10044 | insure | |
#10294 | curtain | |
#10793 | chill | |
#10795 | embrace | |
#10800 | liner | |
#11770 | hatch | |
#13380 | obscure | |
#14438 | overlay | |
#15194 | tack | |
#15260 | compensate | |
#15810 | rag | |
#16278 | traverse | |
#16528 | mantle | |
#17738 | veil | |
#20259 | encompass | |
#21181 | comprehend | |
#24516 | plow | |
#24594 | conceal | |
#25681 | brood | |
#27464 | tabloid | |
#31722 | shroud | |
#33244 | drapery | |
#35818 | pall | |
#40224 | drape | |
#40881 | immersive | |
#43604 | saddlery | |
#50593 | canvass | |
#55901 | darken | |
#59675 | underwrite | |
#60545 | incubate | |
#72502 | obliterate | |
#75984 | envelop | |
#77717 | tacking | |
#197145 | mainsheet | |
#241864 | palliate | |
#257351 | overcompensate |
How to use shroud in a sentence?
A shroud lies ahead and behind many truths. Reality is (sometimes) a glass wall no ray of light reaches.
The birth takes place without a dress; whereas, burial travels with the shroud.
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.
We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)
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.
Translations for shroud
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- vantDanish
- Leichentuch, WantGerman
- σάβανοGreek
- obenquillo, mortaja, sudarioSpanish
- کفنPersian
- kuolinvaate, käärinliina, vanttiFinnish
- hauban, linceul, suaireFrench
- anart-bàisScottish Gaelic
- aareyManx
- vantni, halotti lepelHungarian
- սավանArmenian
- sartia, sudarioItalian
- kefenKurdish
- waewae, puraku, purutapuMāori
- want, lijkwadeDutch
- vantNorwegian
- całunPolish
- mortalha, sudárioPortuguese
- покро́в, саван, ванты, пелена́Russian
- vant, svepningSwedish
- kefenTurkish
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