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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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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

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