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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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