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enshroud

American  
[en-shroud] / ɛnˈʃraʊd /

verb (used with object)

  1. to shroud; conceal.


enshroud British  
/ ɪnˈʃraʊd /

verb

  1. (tr) to cover or hide with or as if with a shroud

    the sky was enshrouded in mist

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of enshroud

First recorded in 1575–85; en- 1 + shroud

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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

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

Temple Studios, as this multilevel maze is being called, is strictly a land of shadows, the thick, inky kind that enshroud nightmares.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2013

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

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