Synonyms for shroud

Most common

cover · cloak · veil · hide

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

Noun

Antonyms

reveal, expose, uncover

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Definitions

1. v. 1

   To cover with a shroud.

2. n. 1

   That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

3. n. 2

   Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

Forms

Plural

shrouds → sheets, tacks, palls, cerements…

Past participle

shrouded
e.g. shrouded → covered, cloaked, veiled, hided…

Example sentences

• hide It became so that I had to hide from the landlord.
• mask He wore a mask so that no one could recognize him.
• veil Algerians veil their wives but deceive them too.
• cloak There's some cloak-and-dagger stuff going on here.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

hide¹, mask¹, veil¹, tack¹, pall¹

5 letters

cover², sheet¹, cloak¹

6 letters

screen¹, mantle², muffle², sindon

7 letters

shelter², obscure², eclipse², conceal², secrete², envelop³

8 letters

disguise², enshroud², cerement

9 letters

dissemble³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cover² = 2 syllables).