Definition of enshroud
: to cover or enclose with or as if with a shroud
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Examples of enshroud in a Sentence
the criminal organization uses a strictly enforced vow of silence to enshroud its villainous doings
a dense fog enshrouded the bridge spanning the harbor
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In the 1960s physicist Freeman Dyson postulated that advanced, energy-hungry civilizations might enshroud their home stars in solar collectors—later called Dyson spheres—to absorb practically all of a star's light.
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Among the most striking of the computerized tomography findings are the child enshrouded in a bundle previously thought to contain only an adult and the similarity among small figures wrapped with Egyptian and Peruvian dead.
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By the peak of winter, when afternoon light shifted too quickly into darkness, Mullin’s team was enshrouded in an 11-game Big East Conference losing streak.
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The researchers believe that FRB 121102 could be a young neutron star enshrouded by gas and dust from the preceding supernova explosion.
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The moon, which is about the size of Mercury, has long been enshrouded in mystery.
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The satellite presentation on Day 6 shows a deeply disconnected system, with the mid- and upper-level vortex completely enshrouded in dry air, and warm sector/warm conveyor/rain corridor displaced hundreds of miles east.
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Thomas Mock, a marine microbiologist at the University of East Anglia in the UK and a pioneer in genetically modifying phytoplankton, also points out that dinoflagellate biology is still largely enshrouded in mystery.
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James rejected the notion that secrecy has enshrouded the KCI discussion.
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First Known Use of enshroud
1583
enshroud Synonyms
Synonyms
belie, blanket, blot out, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, hide, mask, obscure, occult, paper over, screen, shroud, suppress, veil;
Related Words
bury, camouflage, cover (up), smother;
gild, gloss (over), varnish, whitewash;
becloud, bedim, befog, block, cloud, darken, eclipse, obstruct, occlude, overcast, overshadow, shade;
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Definition of enshroud for English Language Learners
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: to cover (something or someone) in a way that makes seeing or understanding difficult
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