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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Actual records of the doctors’ deliberations on Lhermitte’s case are unlikely to be disclosed, given privacy rules that enshroud the Belgian system.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
Here are five myths that have helped enshroud him.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019
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
Shearwaters skim the ramparts; sleeves of vapor enshroud the steeple.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
A sweet mystery enshrouds the nature of music.
From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel
California’s Central Valley has been enshrouded in mist for more than a week thanks to the area’s infamous Tule fog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
While the planters have a past that is enshrouded in exploitation, their impact on Wales is still visible today.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 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
To his great discredit, he enshrouded this transition in bigotry, buffoonery and corruption.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
A spectral fog enshrouded the island, blanking it from view, and we broke from rowing to watch it fade.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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
They have collaborated impressively on the illusions conjured by imaginations running wild, images populated by Botticelli paintings come to life, mutating floral landscapes and mist-covered oceans enshrouding dreamlike figures.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2021
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
She saw him dimly, sitting up; saw his arm lunge as if in a furious blow at the enshrouding night.
From Tales of Space and Time by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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