shroud
noun
a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
shrouded
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past participleof shroud.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof shroud.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
shroudnouna cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
Example Sentences
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"You cannot see," tour operator Diddy Hamidon told AFP, looking out at a vista now shrouded in haze.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
In Singapore, iconic landmarks are being shrouded in toxic haze from the fires.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
His passenger arrives—a young woman in high heels, shrouded in perfume and soaked by the rain, reassuring someone on the phone that she’ll be home soon—and the taxi rolls off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
"Our experiment provided the first empirical demonstration of a process that had previously been shrouded in controversy," Larrea summarizes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
In the hot parlor, beside the specter of the pianola shrouded in a white sheet, Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not sit down that time inside the chalk circle that his aides had drawn.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
