Shrouded
adj, verb
adj, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of shroud form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
- 2 Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
"She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky."
Example
More examples"The origins of these people is shrouded in mystery."
Etymology
From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.
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