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Word: shroud
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- Nautical A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
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Verb:
- idiomatic: To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
- To cover with a shroud.
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