SHROUDING Synonyms: 111 Similar and Opposite Words

shrouding

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present participle of shroud

as in concealing

to keep secret or shut off from view shrouded the fact that the child had been adopted

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as in obscuring

to make dark, dim, or indistinct the smog shrouded our aerial view of the city

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as in wrapping

to surround or cover closely during rainy season the summit of the mountain is shrouded in mist

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Recent Examples of shrouding Congressional leaders, wired to protect their own and afraid of upsetting their narrow margins, are famous for shrouding ethics investigations in secrecy and dragging them out for years. —

Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026 Advertisement Israel has bombed oil depots in Tehran, shrouding the city in toxic black smoke, and attacked Iran’s South Pars gas field. —

Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 1 Apr. 2026 Then venetian blinds shrouding the box slowly rose to reveal glass walls and, inside them, a sinister diorama—a replica of RTLM, or Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, the radio station that fuelled the catastrophe. —

Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026 So unfortunately, right now there's a cloud of mystery still shrouding what's happening here. —

Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026 The shrouding haze seemed to breathe, ebbing and flowing slowly, allowing momentary distant views that vanished with the next foggy breath. —

Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026 Jittery drum programming and shrouding reverb screams Minneapolis in the ‘80s, but the wonky thump and the multiplicity of vocal tracks are just as suggestive of D’Angelo or the raw pain of a Frank Ocean. —

Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025 While reflecting on the gossip fueled by her and Powell's chemistry both on and offscreen with Variety, Sweeney refuted the idea that the rom-com's stars leaned into the mystery shrouding their relationship. —

Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Oct. 2025 Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital. —

New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025

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Her caretaker had allegedly been concealing and profiting from her death.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
Things began heating up in 2024, when Mamba Negra opened as a rooftop bar concealing a lab where guests move through an eight-part cocktail tasting that's made with 100 percent Colombian ingredients.

— Allie Lazar, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026