hooded

[ hood-id ]

adjective

1. having, or covered with, a hood:

   a hooded jacket.

2. having the shape of a hood; hood-shaped.
3. Zoology. having on the head a hoodlike formation, crest, arrangement of colors, or the like.
4. Botany. cucullate.

hooded

/ ˈhʊdɪd /

adjective

1. covered with, having, or shaped like a hood
2. (of eyes) having heavy eyelids that appear to be half closed

Other Words From

• hooded·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hooded¹

First recorded in 1400–50, hooded is from the late Middle English word hodid. See hood ¹, -ed ³

Example Sentences

In other instances, naked detainees were hooded and dragged up and down corridors while subject to physical abuse.

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He was kept in total darkness, kept cold, had music blasted at him and was shackled and hooded.

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She went as calm as a hooded falcon after he covered her head with the sheet.

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You can now find her hooded image on cars, necklaces, votive candles, tattoos, and altars across Mexico and the United States.

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They can only be grateful to be equipped and trained with full body hazmat suits complete with hooded face masks.

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They were hidden by the bend of the hooded passage, alone in the filtered light that struggled up the gloomy halls.

From Project Gutenberg

He switched on a hooded reading-light beside the bed and turned it so that its rays fell on the small occupant.

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Then, removing his ulster, he drew the hooded adikey over his head.

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All horrent the cobra exalts his hooded head, and the spanning jaws fly open.

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Mrs. Maynard put a lovely white, hooded cape of her own round Marjorie, and carefully drew the hood up over her curls.

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