Noun
the truth of the affair will always be hidden under a shroud of secrecy Verb
The mountains were shrouded in fog.
Their work is shrouded in secrecy.
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Noun
That’s because cutting-edge encryption shrouds information behind mathematical problems (such as factoring enormous numbers) that are conjectured to be unsolvable in any practical amount of time.—Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025 Still, Sottosanti didn’t further pursue his interest in the shroud until recently.—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
Air pollution in New Delhi hit a five-year high this week, as Diwali fireworks combined with farming fires to shroud the city in a toxic haze.—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025 This is not even the first time in the past year that Tyler’s old material has resurfaced online, spawning a familiar ouroboros of online discourse, shrouded in the language of accountability and well-meaning politics, that mostly serves to feed the beast of online engagement.—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shroud
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English, garment, from Old English scrūd; akin to Old English scrēade shred — more at shred entry 1
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