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
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
She does not seek to touch or persuade him again, only gazes earnestly up at him, through the wretched mist that enshrouds them, with a face that is as the faces of the dead.
From Portia or By Passions Rocked by Duchess
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
Commissioners have refused to reveal the identities of the front-runners — reflecting the secrecy that has enshrouded much of the the search process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
She was temporarily enshrouded in protective padding, adding a layer of mystery.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
In addition to giving off optical and X-ray bursts, TDEs can generate infrared radiation, particularly in "dusty" galaxies, where a central black hole is enshrouded with galactic debris.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
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
The mother, with a last lingering look and a sob fortunately smothered in the enshrouding veil, turned and hurried away in the opposite direction.
From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
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