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
Wrapped in the blankets, watching the nameless dark come to enshroud them.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
While the planters have a past that is enshrouded in exploitation, their impact on Wales is still visible today.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 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
"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
She was temporarily enshrouded in protective padding, adding a layer of mystery.
From New York Times ● Feb. 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
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
And to make the enshrouding darkness yet more dense, she was cousin to the Satyr!
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
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