enshroud
Americanverb (used with object)
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enshrouds,
present (3rd person singular)
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enshrouded,
past participle, past
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enshrouding
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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enshroudsimple
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enshroudssimple
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have enshroudedperfect
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has enshroudedperfect
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am enshroudingprogressive
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are enshroudingprogressive
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is enshroudingprogressive
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have been enshroudingperfect progressive
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has been enshroudingperfect progressive
Past
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enshroudedsimple
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had enshroudedperfect
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was enshroudingprogressive
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were enshroudingprogressive
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had been enshroudingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of enshroud
Vocabulary lists containing enshroud
Example Sentences
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Here are five myths that have helped enshroud him.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019
I find these treasures littering the back of the refrigerator, looking like crumpled silver cat toys, and wonder why it was necessary to enshroud this bite of food instead of just, you know, eating it.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2018
The same is almost possible these days in New York, where more than 280 miles of scaffolding, some of it more than a decade old, now enshroud the perpetually unfinished cityscape.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
During winter, the smoke from our fires and the mist from the lakes would mingle and enshroud our village.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2017
New memories continue to enshroud those old ones: the fading face of my mother, a name that once was mine—what the word Jewish meant.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
Piece by piece, the scaffolding that enshrouds the site will come down over the course of 2024, in time for its planned Dec. 8 reopening to the public.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
Reason four he enshrouds with disclaimers: that it is not his intention to tell “a sob story”, that “I don’t like people feeling sorry for me”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2017
Actually, “Rogue One” is unusually dark, but only in the literal sense—its cinematography enshrouds the characters in a surprisingly murky depth of shadows.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2016
That subtlety enshrouds it in mystery: Scientists are busily determining what dark energy does, and they have yet to reach any consensus on what dark energy is.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2014
But out from the clouds, Out from the agonized dust that enshrouds; True kings shall arise who shall reign In homes on the populous plain!
From Oklahoma and Other Poems by Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller
With their country enshrouded in trauma amid the ongoing war with Russia, a team hauled together shone brightly at a sun-drenched Hampden.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
"If the latter is true, it tells us that they're of relatively low mass, low temperature, enshrouded in dust, or some combination of the three -- as is likely the case in MWC 758."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Contrast that with the gloom that enshrouded the Bruins on Thursday during their third consecutive loss, not to mention a pitiful encore to their flat showing against rival USC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
To his great discredit, he enshrouded this transition in bigotry, buffoonery and corruption.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
From the outside I must look like a cocoon, a spook, face enshrouded like this, only the outlines visible, of nose, bandaged mouth, blind eyes.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Du Bois reckoned with his judgment and the tumult enshrouding it chiefly through writing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
Flying into southern Iraq in March, the irony felt as thick as the murk enshrouding the city of Basra below.
From Salon ● May 22, 2022
Thankfully, summer crowds are mostly abated this time of year and visitors will be treated to a show of brilliant fall foliage enshrouding the pristine mountain lake.
From Fox News ● Oct. 14, 2021
He began putting in volunteer shifts of up to 20 hours transporting bodies, putting them in freezers in the funeral home, washing and enshrouding them in white cloth and taking them to cemeteries for burial.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2021
Behind him a brilliant world went slowly dark; it became, after long watching, a violet ring—then that was gone; the Dark Moon was lost in the folds of enshrouding night.
From Brood of the Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin
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