shroud
noun
a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
shrouded
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past participleof shroud.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof shroud.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
shroudnouna cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
Example Sentences
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Billowing smoke has shrouded the state capital Manaus for days, while the El Nino climate phenomenon threatens to exacerbate drought in the Amazon.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
In Singapore, iconic landmarks are being shrouded in toxic haze from the fires.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
His passenger arrives—a young woman in high heels, shrouded in perfume and soaked by the rain, reassuring someone on the phone that she’ll be home soon—and the taxi rolls off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
“She found it slightly easier to talk to me of her anorexia than she ever did her bulimia. That condition she shrouded with secrecy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Not even an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom, silent, not moving, shrouded in their thin grey cloaks.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
